[GeronL]

Didn’t the Confederacy strengthen their central government more and more during the war?

[LS]

Yep. The so-called "free" South in over 150 separate areas investigated by Richard Bensel in his book Yankee Leviathan had a worse record for white human rights; a worse record on property rights (higher taxes, confiscation, etc.) and a more centralized government than the Union.

On, and the Confederacy had this little thing in its Constitution called slavery . . . three times. It stated that even if a state somehow banned slavery, it had to protect the rights of slaveholders who brought their slaves into that state. Yeah, that sounds like "states' rights" to me. (sarcasm)

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Governor Brown of Georgia had no use for the Confederacy’s centralizing tendencies. But the CSA was not only beset by central government oppression. The Confederate regime was also characterized by many local petty tyrants who were no more than glorified thugs with pretensions. It wasn’t just black Southerners that the great Lincoln helped to liberate.