A lie. The South failed in it's bid because a military foe denied it the right to self-government.
And sent them to bed without supper -- AND changed the parental code on the Playstation 2.
The south was denied the right to self-government because they agreed to be bound permanently into a perpetual federal Union. And they were denied the right to self government because they couldn't bring the military power to maintain their territorial integrity. That is how the Goths sacked Rome, Rome conquered Carthage, Titus sacked Jerusalem, Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Saddam Hussein was kicked out of Kuwait, and....get the picture? And the south couldn't bring military power because slave labor couldn't produce the power needed to compete with a free labor economy.
Walt
Nonsense. The word "perpetual" does not appear in the Constitution, nor does permanent or any other derivation of the word/meaning. The founders DROPPED the word "perpetual" from the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union [which appeared FIVE times] in their move to make a more perfect union, which required less consent than did the UNANIMOUS consent required by the Articles. Additionally, there is no prohibition against secession, and the Tenth Amendment still exists, and federal laws are subservient to the Constitution (see the tagline). Their does exist a requirement in the Full Faith & Credit Clause that the State Acts be recognized, but the union reneged on that one as well.
And the south couldn't bring military power because slave labor couldn't produce the power needed to compete with a free labor economy.
Nonsense. Remove the union military blockade, and have the union forces conduct civilized warfare - not against civilians and civilian property, and the South easily would have survived. The South was starved into submission, not defeated honourably on the battlefield.