[DiogenesLamp]

Which is sort of like saying that the benefit an extortion victim receives is that he gets to continue living.

You would regard the refusal of the South to sign an agreement with the North as a form of extortion?

Hyperbole much?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

You’re the one who said that the deal was accept southern demands or be conquered by Britain. “They wouldn’t have gotten a deal otherwise, so apparently whatever benefit they received was a consequence of the Deal they made! (It was continuing independence from England. That was their benefit. )”