IMHO: The South was correct on all points, except one. If the South would have freed the slaves before or during the war, they would have had plugged the leak that eventually sunk the cause.
I believe God caused the South to lose because slavery is even worse than the loss of States's rights and the loss of other individual freedoms that the North's win meant for America.
Yes, Big Government is a form of slavery, but the slavery that was practiced in the South was far worse than today's reduced individual freedoms is, even if the South's salvery affected only a portion of the population, while Big Government affects all or us.
salvery = slavery
The proper treatment of slaves is in the bible....you may want to rethink that.
Impossible for them to accomplish. If Davis had tried (or even if Lee had declared himself dictator and tried) the whole Confederacy would have collapsed into infighting and desertion.
"I believe God caused the South to lose because..."
Well, I'm a native Texan, with Bama in my heart, but...
If the South had won, a de-centralized confederacy [or a split North America] would never have mustered the strength to fight the Nazis or the Soviets. "Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers".
yes, slavery as practiced in the South is the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the world or ever will
everything else pales.
feel better now?
I agree. I think the North won over the South because the North was fighting a moral cause, i.e. a war against slavery. Say what you want about "states rights" and all the other political stuff, but it was about slavery.
Personally...I don't think God had anything to do with it.
Paul Johnson, in A History of the American People", affirms the fact that slavery was always a contentious issue from the time of the original colonies. He also asserts that the south would have won the War of NOrthern Aggression had the gin and harvester been deveoped just a decade or two earlier, thus enabling the South to develope its economy to a greater extent. With mechanization, the proslavery proponents would have not held tightly to he notion of 'chatel' slavery as it was the singular blot on American idealism. Had the South had 20 years to developes its infrastructure and economy, there is little doubt that the south would have prevailed, according to Paul Johnson.
If the south had freed their slaves before the war then there wouldn't have been a rebellion to begin with.