There was no way the South could win the war. None.
Slavery would have died out eventually for economic as well as moral reasons.
The South saw nothing morally wrong with slavery. As for economic reasons, what would have replaced it? The fact is that slavery would have died out eventually, decades later. And that would have been pretty hard on the continuing generations of people in bondage, wouldn't it?
Oh well. Just half a million dead people. Who cares Mr. Lincoln?
Thank Jeff Davis. It was his war.
I’m led to wonder what if the Confederacy had pursued an all-out guerilla war instead of a conventional one. To emerge victorious, the South merely needed to continue to exist. It was the North that needed to conquer its enemy. A committed, armed Southern population fighting a guerilla campaign might not have been as easy to defeat as a Confederate army fighting full-scale battles (not to imply that four years and a half million+ casualties was “easy”, but you get my meaning.)