No one would have predicted that a rational man would kill 620,000 people to impose his will. In light of the unpredictable insanity they were dealing with on the other side, none of their behavior could be considered unwise.
They encountered a "black swan" event. Someone who was willing to drench the entire nation in blood to prevent other people from leaving his control.
Of course his masters in the Wealthy circles of New England probably would brook no other outcome than that their money streams continue. They could buy their own way out of the conflict for 1/3rd the price of a slave, that is, if anyone ever had the gall to suggest they needed to.
You are speaking of Jefferson Davis & company, of course.
The British government was certainly wise enough to withhold diplomatic recognition for the Confederacy, regardless of how sympathetic many in the British elite may have been.
DiogenesLamp: "Of course his masters in the Wealthy circles of New England probably would brook no other outcome than that their money streams continue. "
But Jefferson Davis certainly recognized no such masters, nor did President Lincoln.
So they are purely a product of your own overheated imagination, FRiend.