Honestly, was it worth it?

[jayarby]

Why didn't Union just say "Secede if that's your desire and just try to develop a prosperous economy based on slavery". Sooner or later, the Confederacy would have realized that it was folly, ending slavery, and asking to be re-admitted into the union without the lose of hundreds of thousands of men from both sides. Utah was allowed entrance into the union once they renounced Polygamy. I believe this could have been resolved without so much loss of life. Another thought, Southerners were bitter about the lose for years after the war. Are today's Southerners still bitter and if so, why? It can't be the lose of slavery. Lose of state's rights? Or just because they lost the war?

[leftyhunter]

Hi Garby,

Your right but hindsight is 20/20. After Ft Sumter was fired on president Linclon only asked for 75k men with just a 3 month enlistment. Linclon and Davis for that matter had no clue the war would last so long. By August of 1864 Linclon thought he would lose his relection against former Gen. Mcleanen (sp?) because of Grants heavy loss in Va. Shermans Sept take over of Atlanta ensured Linclons reelection.

Southners that are still bitter are bitter because they dont like Afro-Americans its just that simplemhas also evidenced by the Jim Crow laws enacted in the post civil war era that were only repealed in 1964. Not all southners are rascist Clinton and Carter are Southners and they recieved the majority of the Afro-American vote. Obama won three southern states and 10% of the Union army was composed of Southern whites. It was a complex war no doubt.
I hope this helps a little.

Leftyhunter

[intothefight]

Cinfederates have euphemistically referred to the Civil War as the Recent Unpleasantness. It was far more than that. Was the war worth it? Once it got started and all chances of political resolution had dissipated, I would say that it was worth it.

Had the North not won, despite its horrid retribution upon the South and its sell out of African Americans to resolve the Hays-Tilden Presidential election, this country would have been fragmented into 12 countries and would have indeed "perished from the earth." If it had not been fought and won by the Union, slavery would have lasted longer than it did. The 13th, 14th, and the 15th Amendments, while apparently being hoisted upon the southern states to readmit them to the Union, set the foundation for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of the 1960's.

Had the war not been fought and the Union won we would still be referring to this nation as the United States "are" as opposed to the unifying United States "is".

It is a terrible shame that freedom and unity have come at such a price.

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