had lincoln, the TYRANT, failed to invade MD & VA, there would have been no NEEDLESS war, which cost the lives of a MILLION citizens.
instead there would now be 3 free countries in North America, living peacefully, side by side.
free dixie,sw
I think the conflict would have been deferred but there would have been no lasting peace. There were Unionist regions in the South and pockets of Confederate sympathy in the North that would have been sources of contention. But mainly it would have been impossible for two distinct social systems to coexist. One region based on the American ideals of liberty and the other based on the Assyrian ideals of slavery. It was a good thing for the South that the Confederacy was beaten when it was, because in a later conflict the Union would probably not have been as gentle with the CSA as an independent nation as they were with an internal insurrection.