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Editor says, what if the border states had seceded from the Union? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the July 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1864, on this day a Confederate relief force was sent to assist the Republic of Texas suppress the Cherokee panhandle rebellion.
Cherokee Panhandle Rebellion
by Ed and Jeff ProvineCommander P.G.T. Beauregard was a veteran General of the States War. That conflict had ended in stalemate after the Border States seceded. And inevitably the successor states in the South were now facing their own challenge to maintain territorial integrity. The creation of an Independent Texas had caused border issues with Indian Territory out in the panhandle which was a legal/geographic mess in its own as many of the Cherokee had refused to join the Confederacy.
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~ It would have been interesting to see how the Confederacy would have handled a secession of one of its own states.
~ I can understand why the Cherokee refused to join the Confederacy, many of them were kids or young adults during the Trail of Tears and prolly lost family durning that genocide. Could we see a recognized Tribal Confederation instead of present-day Oklahoma?
~ It's worth noting that for all its huffing and puffing on the matter, the Confederacy managed to forget to explicitly recognize in its own constitution the right of states to secede. Apparently its leaders took the view that that right was so obvious it didn't need to be acknowledged--which I think was an absolute guarantee of later trouble had the CSA won its independence.
~ The CSA were big hypocrites on secession---when WVA seceded, and East Tennessee tried to, to rejoin the Union, they did all they could to bring them back into the CSA.
~ The Southern Slave Power wanted a huge, expansive, intrusive Federal government, contrary to what the neo-Confederates of today maintain. The Democratic Convention of 1860 (held in Charleston, SC ironically enough) proves it.
~ Yeah, it just wanted said government to tell the North to do what the South wanted and otherwise shut up. Pot, meet Kettle.....
~ Stand Watie and Opothleyahola teaming up to create an independent Indian Territory... It could turn into another Seminole War and make the South wonder whether it's worth trying to hold onto treaties (which I assume were already fudged upon, given general White attitudes at the time).
~ I seem to remember that Lincoln warned the Confederacy that if they could secede from the Union, then their own Confederate states could leave the Confederacy as well.
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