A series of ''What Ifs''
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/r...s-of-what-ifs/
Review of Cry Havoc The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2008
''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee