Anaxagoras
Banned
Why would they want to?
Expansionist attitudes in a victorious Confederacy are going to be very different than they were when the South was still part of the Union. The men who wrote the Ostend Manifesto and all that jazz were thinking in terms of creating new slaves states so as to maintain the balance between slave states and free states in the Senate. But if the Confederacy has secured independence from the Union, that will no longer be a factor. Consequently, the desire to expand slave territory will lose much of its impetus.
Expansionist attitudes in a victorious Confederacy are going to be very different than they were when the South was still part of the Union. The men who wrote the Ostend Manifesto and all that jazz were thinking in terms of creating new slaves states so as to maintain the balance between slave states and free states in the Senate. But if the Confederacy has secured independence from the Union, that will no longer be a factor. Consequently, the desire to expand slave territory will lose much of its impetus.