Kimmo Huosionmaa
http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/writing-about-confederate-rebel-in-1861.html
When we are talking about things what happened in America in 1861, when eleven states wanted to separate from the Union, we must ask one question: what General Robert E. Lee thought, that he could do, because Confederate states didn't have that kind of industry, that they could produce military equipment like rifles and cannons? But when we are looking for the reason for that rebel, we must make one conclusion. The American civil war was very tragic, but it cleaned the society from people, who were against principles of the United States Of America.
I sometimes think that those rebellious forces were raised by propaganda, what purpose was to cause open rebel in those states. If those rebellious men use weapons against Union troops, the use of force against them would be legal. And if those separatists would be rebel openly, they would be easy targets for Union troops, and that would make larger scale "cleaning" possible. There is one good picture, what has been painted about the civil war (above). It is a painting of Battle of Bull Run, where confederates stand above Union troops.
The painting shows very clearly, what was a mistake of those rebels. They have raised themselves above normal people, and that way they made themselves as good targets for attackers. The reason why confederate didn't get open support from anybody, is slavery. That disgusting thing where human beings are like some merchandise caused hate in the minds of many people.
To use people as an artifact is a main the main reason why the confederate couldn't get official support from France or Great Britain. Slavery was strictly against principles of the United States, and that became a major question of that civil war, meant Lincoln that or not. Was the reason for that war financial or morals, the cause of that war is, that race separation in the USA began to be canceled, and racism became justified in the western world. And also that meant the labors conditions became more important question all around the world, and it conducted to born of the labor unions and another kind of things.