There is when you try to claim a moral argument for killing people. You claim it's all about some "principle", and then you don't actually take a stand on principle?
Pure speculation, not supportable by facts.
Five more states and all the manpower that went with it? It's not exactly speculation. The South came close to winning anyways. With several more hundred thousand men to throw in it, they very likely would have won.
More likely, with five more states as part of the Confederacy, they would have been seen as more formidable, and this would have greatly reduced the desire to test them.
Five more states and all the manpower that went with it? It’s not exactly speculation.
Where was the South going to get the several more hundred thousand rifles for these men. They couldn’t make them, and they couldn’t get them through the blockade.
The South came close to winning anyways.
Maybe in your wildest dreams. But in reality the South never came close. They might had an outside chance if the could convince the Brits and French to interfere. Without them they would have failed anyway.