The sufficiency should be self-evident. Had it been so perhaps any nation would have taken the rebels side. No nation did. No nation agreed that there was sufficient cause to rebel and no nation thought that the southern “secession” was proper.
“The sufficiency should be self-evident. Had it been so perhaps any nation would have taken the rebels side. No nation did. No nation agreed that there was sufficient cause to rebel and no nation thought that the southern “secession” was proper.”
No nation was willing to go to war with the United States Federal Government on behave of anther nation yet unborn. Many nations sympathized with the Southern cause even if they didn’t like everything about the south as illustrated by their support in trade, words, and sentiment.
Asking anther nation to commit militarily the lives and fortunate of their own to such a cause takes anther measure of their own interest. The french for example in the American revolution had a great many reasons to desire to go to war with the United Kingdom separate and apart from riding them of some of their most valuable colonies.
I think looking at the extra-constitutional behavior of Washington, and the disparaging political policy’s and directions of the north that largely controlled Washington the South had many self-evident reasons to desire to be Independence. Not that I agree independence would have worked out quite so well as many in the south might have hoped, that is of course beside the point.