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xoxoxoBruce · 07-19-2007, 04:04 PM

By 1860, I think the English had pretty much given up the Idea of reclaiming parts of the US. That said, it would be to their advantage to keep up the animosity between the North and South. The South provided the materials the wanted/needed, and market for their manufactured goods, competing with the North for that market. Plus two countries would be weaker than one, in the future.
That's why they were helping the South with money and supplies, and could have very well committed troops, being one of those rare times with no wars of there own going on(except New Zealand, I think).

So Chewbacca may be right as to the Emancipation Proclamation being a deterrent for foreign intervention. But I think it's prime effect is to set the stage for a huge insurgency within the CSA territory. Even if the slaves didn't openly revolt, they would be less inclined to help their masters.

07-19-2007, 04:04 PM	#38
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	By 1860, I think the English had pretty much given up the Idea of reclaiming parts of the US. That said, it would be to their advantage to keep up the animosity between the North and South. The South provided the materials the wanted/needed, and market for their manufactured goods, competing with the North for that market. Plus two countries would be weaker than one, in the future. That's why they were helping the South with money and supplies, and could have very well committed troops, being one of those rare times with no wars of there own going on(except New Zealand, I think). So Chewbacca may be right as to the Emancipation Proclamation being a deterrent for foreign intervention. But I think it's prime effect is to set the stage for a huge insurgency within the CSA territory. Even if the slaves didn't openly revolt, they would be less inclined to help their masters. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.