Possible Political Parties in the Confederate States of America

Another obstacle for a Confederate dictatorship would have been the pretty decentralized distribution of power deeply ingrained in both the CSA constitution and mindset. Furthermore any confederate President trying to usurp more power would be faced with the immediare threat of secession, state rights were simply sacrosanct.

For most Confederate politicians, States Rights were anything but sacrosanct. The Border Ruffians, the LeCompton Constitution, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Dred Scott decision - all blatant violations of States Rights and all enthusiastically supported by much of the South.

A lot of decentralization got pitched out the window by the Confederacy during the ACW. The Davis administration dictated rates to railroads and required blockade runners to carry government cargoes free of charge. Workers were drafted to keep them from striking and to get better rates out of industries. Civilian firearms were confiscated. Half-a-million dollars in goods was impressed by the Confederate government. Internal passports were required in certain areas. The CS government declared that any debts owed to Union citizens were now owed to the Confederate government. Emory Thomas points out that by 1863, more government workers were employed by Richmond than by Washington DC.

Men who actually believed in States Rights like Brown of Georgia and Vance of North Carolina were generally seen as obstructionists, not hailed for their dedication.

The question is does an independent Confederacy continue its move towards totalitarianism or do those who oppose it learn to form a coherent opposition party?
 
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, your best proof is a minor speech written down by reporters by a minor Congressman who became Vice President of the Confederacy just because he was from Georgia? That's hilarious. http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/cw223.htm

Plenty of other proof has been posted, even if you continue to ignore it.

Mississippi Declaration of Causes pf Secession said:
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.

Texas Declaration of Causes pf Secession said:
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.

Texas Declaration of Causes pf Secession said:
In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color-- a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.

Texas Declaration of Causes pf Secession said:
That in this free government *all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights* [emphasis in the original]; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states.

The Charleston Mercury said:
Slave property, is the foundation of all property in the South.

The Charleston Mercury said:
The ruin of the South, by the emancipation of her slaves, is not like the ruin of any other people. It is not a mere loss of liberty, like the Italians under the BOURBONS. It is not heavy taxation, which must still leave the means of living, or otherwise taxation defeats itself. But it is the loss of liberty, property, home, country-- everything that makes life worth living.

The Charleston Mercury said:
The existence of slavery is at stake.

The Daily Picayune said:
The very agitation of which we complain has in one respect accrued to our benefit. It has evolved the true principles on which the institution of slavery is based. It has convinced all Southern men of the moral right, the civil, social and political benefit of slavery.
 
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