If for some reason(miracle) Jeff Davis pulled a fast one on the Lanky Yankee and AGREED to the emancipation proclamation, freed all the slaves in the “states currently in rebellion” (I really like that part), do you think the North would have granted the South’s wishes for independence? Also, do you think the South would have givin up the “cause”? My contention is nothing would have changed except the Southern Army would have been a hell of a lot bigger.
“If for some reason(miracle) Jeff Davis pulled a fast one on the Lanky Yankee and AGREED to the emancipation proclamation, freed all the slaves in the “states currently in rebellion” (I really like that part), do you think the North would have granted the South’s wishes for independence?”
If by some miracle, Robert E. Lee had 5000 Sherman tanks and several squadrons of B-29’s the Civil War may have ended differently.
So let’s not talk about “if’s” and instead keep the discussion to reality.
And the reality of the matter is that South Carolina succeeded from the Union for the sole purpose of maintaining the institution of slavery.
The leaders of the CSA could have abolished slavery on their own accord, but elected to maintain slavery until they were defeated by the Union.
The Civil War was about Slavery.
Where would Davis have gotten the authority to do something like that? What clause in his Constitution gave him that power?
My contention is nothing would have changed except the Southern Army would have been a hell of a lot bigger.
What would have caused the increase? Would desertions have gone down?