Posted on 06/20/2020 10:49:45 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
GIVE ME A BREAK, THE CSA DID NOT INTEND ON CONQUERING OR OVERTHROWING THE US GOVERNMENT IN DC.
A laughable pile of bile. This crap would make for a nice fantasy/history NOVEL.
There were a few Southern fire brand types, that opined about the future expansion of the new Confederacy into parts of Mexico, Central America and Cuba. None of these radical thinker’s ideas ever grew beyond wistful thinking.
The South was an immediate economic threat, and over time would likely become a territorial threat.
Is that not how the South felt?
They did not want to over throw the federal government
and replace it, they just wanted to leave it.
Slavery was the cancer that killed the Confederacy
Hardly. Had they remained in the Union, the slavery would have simply continued unabated.
What killed the Confederacy was the fact they were a real economic threat to the powerful interests then controlling Washington DC, and which still control it today.
They used their influence to get the government to destroy their economic competition before it damaged them severely.
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