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It stripped the population of their civil rights by suspending habeas corpus, instituting martial law throughout the country,

When the Confederate Congress voted to give Davis a 6 months suspension of habeas corpus, several states immediately voted to nullify that heinous act in their state, it nearly brought down the Confederacy from within. The amount of none cooperation between the Governor's of the states and the Davis administration was unparalleled in American history, and actually shortened the war.

But the North would have lost nothing but size and pride. The South lost their country and their independence.

That statement is loosely taken from a note by General T. J. Jackson to his adjutant Sandy Pendleton telling him [Should the Republicans lose their war they go home fat with war profits to their big homes. But should we lose, we lose everything our country and our independence.] I hardly think had that war ended with a armistice or negotitated peace, it would have been Damn near impossible to talk either side into resuming hostilities for a long long time.

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When the Confederate Congress voted to give Davis a 6 months suspension of habeas corpus, several states immediately voted to nullify that heinous act in their state, it nearly brought down the Confederacy from within.

But it didn't, did it? The suspension remained throughout the the war. The habeas corpus commissioners still threw people in jail. Martial law was still in place hundreds of miles away from the fighting. Travel passes were still required. And judicial protections still were non-existent. And somehow the confederacy stumbled on and the people accepted the loss of rights as necessary to protect them from the Yankees. And the likelyhood that the government would have continued to use those restrictions to protect the country from future threats from the defeated foe cannot be discounted.

The amount of none cooperation between the Governor's of the states and the Davis administration was unparalleled in American history, and actually shortened the war.

It didn't interfere in the conduct of the war as much as you would have us believe. The Davis government held sway over the confederacy. They had the army and their habeas corpus commissioners to ensure control. That didn't change in too many areas until the federal government restored U.S. control.

Should the Republicans lose their war they go home fat with war profits to their big homes. But should we lose, we lose everything our country and our independence.

Yes, well Jackson was a man with his own predjudices, and that sentiment is not supported by any evidence I am aware of. The Union soldier was fighting to restore his country. He wouldn't have written off defeat as mere lost profits. Any separation as the result of battle would have left the North embittered, as embittered as the defeated South was.