[DiogenesLamp]

The South lacked the finances, manpower, equipment, and industrial capacity to overpower the United States, let alone try and conquer South America or a part of it.

That would have changed in less than a decade had they succeeded in maintaining independence. I think the border states would have eventually joined them. And then the territories. Eventually the CSA would be bigger and more powerful than the USA.

I think Lincoln and Northern businessmen could see this coming. I have said in the past, were I in Lincoln's shoes, I would have likely done the same thing. The South was an immediate economic threat, and over time would likely become a territorial threat.

[Bull Snipe]

Those are your opinions.

[tet68]

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.