As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I place this here as reference points, as there were Copperheads in the Union North, as much as numbers of Americans who believed completely in States Rights as much as the Union. The following quotes of Lt. Phil Sheridan stationed in Washington Country is an insight to what was taking place in America in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Quote 1:
"I should be relieved by Captain James J. Archer, of the Ninth Infantry, whose company was to take the place of the old garrison. Captain Archer, with his company of the Ninth, arrived shortly after, but I had been notified that he intended to go South, and his conduct was such after reaching the post that I would not turn over the command to him for fear he might commit some rebellious act. Thus a more prolonged detention occurred than I had at first anticipated. Finally the news came that he had tendered his resignation and been granted a leave of absence for sixty days."
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
Quote 2:
"September, 1861, I was deeply solicitous as to the course of events, and though I felt confident that in the end the just cause of the Government must triumph, yet the thoroughly crystallized organization which the Southern Confederacy quickly exhibited disquieted me very much, for it alone was evidence that the Southern leaders had long anticipated the struggle and prepared for it."
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
Quote 3:
"At this time California was much agitated— on the question of secession, and the secession element was so strong that considerable apprehension was felt by the Union people lest the State might be carried into the Confederacy. As a consequence great distrust existed in all quarters, and the loyal passengers on the steamer, not knowing what might occur during our voyage, prepared to meet emergencies by thoroughly organizing to frustrate any attempt that might possibly be made to carry us into some Southern port after we should leave Aspinwall."
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army
It is of note that California was in play, and that numbers of officers and soldiers in the United States military were sympathetic to the Southern cause. I have made it plain that I would have stood against the abolitionists goaded by European intrigue as much as Abraham Lincoln who was completely the match set up to start the division of America.
States have absolute rights and the federal government has only those operational articles to protect the Right of the Citizen. Slaves were property and it was a criminal act to deprive any Citizen of their property without complete compensation.
I am all for the Union and it's preservation, but the Unionists in victory sowed the demise of America and created a federal regime of absolute power, absolutely corrupted. This has now made the states string puppets of cartel mandates down to the SWAT police state and the minders of city councils.
In assessing this, the Confederacy should have won. General Lee should have won a Gettysburg and annexed the Union. Slavery due to the industrial revolution would have crumbled under it's not being as productive as the McCormick Reaper.
Jefferson Davis should have been President and the long line of temperate Confederate officers starting with General Lee would have filled out the government to the 1900 period. Sometime in this, it is certain that the entire slave race would have been returned to their African homeland with a conscripted class for public works as the Japanese and Chinese performed in railroad construction.
The Northerners would have by their own industry progressed to self generated wealth, and the entire situation of slavery would have vanished.
nuff said
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