No, actually the exact opposite. The Confederate States was the ultimate
states-rights organization.

OzOne wrote:
State rights is one thing, freedom of the people is different I think.


Other than upholding slavery, the Confederacy granted far more liberty
to the individual citizen as well as to the states. It was actually too
free, there was no legal way for the central gov't to compel anything
from tax payment to military service. That left gov't in the hands of
the old-money aristocracy & business plutocracy, and pretty much total
freedom to the individual.

If the North had not invaded (hence the name of the war) most
Southerners would not have given a tinker's damn for their own
Confederate gov't and never enlisted for military service at all. As it
was, everybody signed up to tell the Yankees to git outta their yard.

Had the South won (and it was closer than many people realize) the
Confederacy would have fallen apart.

DSK

God Bless Jefferson Davis!

BC

"DSK" wrote in message
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No, actually the exact opposite. The Confederate States was the ultimate
states-rights organization.

OzOne wrote:
State rights is one thing, freedom of the people is different I think.


Other than upholding slavery, the Confederacy granted far more liberty
to the individual citizen as well as to the states. It was actually too
free, there was no legal way for the central gov't to compel anything
from tax payment to military service. That left gov't in the hands of
the old-money aristocracy & business plutocracy, and pretty much total
freedom to the individual.

If the North had not invaded (hence the name of the war) most
Southerners would not have given a tinker's damn for their own
Confederate gov't and never enlisted for military service at all. As it
was, everybody signed up to tell the Yankees to git outta their yard.

Had the South won (and it was closer than many people realize) the
Confederacy would have fallen apart.

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message

Had the South won (and it was closer than many people realize) the
Confederacy would have fallen apart.

I once heard that New Bern was to have been the titular capital of the
South, had they been victorious. Any veracity to that?

Max