Spengler
Banned
Even than I could see some politically opportunistic president maybe using abolitionist sentiment to win elections, also I could see the USA try to carve up the CSA considering how much of a ecconomic basket case it would have become (despite what some dishonest neoconfederate Authors would have you believe).We shouldn't overestimate the tolerance the North would have had for free blacks. There was a strong abolitionist sentiment in New England, yes, but not nearly as much in the Midwestern States. And the riots which shook New York City in 1863 seem to be as focused on racist anti-black sentiment as opposition to the draft.