[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "No one would have predicted that a rational man would kill 620,000 people to impose his will."

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.

[DiogenesLamp]

"No one would have predicted that a rational man would kill 620,000 people to impose his will."

You are speaking of Jefferson Davis & company, of course.

They could not have stopped the war with a word. The butcher's bill was under Lincoln's control, not under the control of anyone else.