This post is in reply to the whole article. I have begun to think that when the consequences of action are taken into account, when the ripple in the pond happens, one can begin to place the source of the problem to abraham lincoln.
So, I will say this. Historians generally agree that the seeds of WWII were planted in the aftermath of WWI. And, since it is generally agreed that the U.S. presence in WWI tipped the scales of victory toward the allies, and since the U.S. federal government was full of itself after successfully subjugating the States in 1865 and after nearly erasing a whole race of people in the American Indian, and after defeating Spain in the grand little war of 1898, therefore, the blame of the Holocaust can be laid at the feet of abraham lincoln.
Because, if lincoln had been defeated, and the States Rights people had won, there would have been no nationalist feeling into the 1890’s, the U.S. and C.S. may not have joined forces to enter the European war, there probably would have been a stalemate, with no adolph hitler rising to become the German leader, and with no blame being placed on the Jews.
What I love the most is the south’s cry of “states rights” being what the fight was about. Once the war started that went out the window. The csa was completely a “big” government ideology, wether it meant to be or not. Almost immediately after the war began Davis and his traitorous cronies realized that if they were to have any chance they needed to centralize the gov’t, by instituting a draft of soldiers, taxing all goods...it was a contradiction of their cause and they knew it! The governors of Alabama and Mississippi were so harsh in their criticism of Davis and Benjamin that they refused to send anymore troops, and thusly were threatened with removal by the “big” government unless they complied. While the south probably never meant for it to become so, it did happen. Had the south won, you would be looking at very much the same kind of gov’t we have today. Regardless of that, the south did not win, they had no chance...out-manned and out moneyed. They would have become nothing more than a protected colony of England until the Union took it back.