LOL. You are letting your radical brain overwhelm whatever sense of logic you might have. There were 24 million people in the North including women and children. The federal budget was around $50 million. That’s works out to $2 per person if they took every red cent. No money for the Army and Navy. No money for embassies. No money for roads and harbors. No money for Federal employees. No pay for politicians. None of it.
Do you really want to stick with that line of nonsense? I mean you are also saying the entire United States was a mistake all because you want to defend a pack of asshole slave drivers. Do you think the United States is still a mistake?
As a collection of independent states who wanted independence from a government they viewed as oppressive and tyrannical, the United States was not a mistake.
But as the government evolved into the same thing the original 13 colonies fled, it became a mistake.
In 1861 we departed from being a coalition of the willing to become a coalition of the compelled. That's not what the founders created.