""Treaty of Paris (1867)"
…Confederate negotiators largely failed to accomplish most of their goals. American negotiators refused to budge on any major territorial concessions, including Confederate claims on Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and even the new American state of West Virginia. The only Confederate negotiating victory came on accident – American negotiators agreed to "popular sovereignty" in the Indian territories, having not been informed of several now-infamously brutal massacres of Native Americans that pushed even many previously pro-Union tribes towards opting for the Confederacy. The parties agreed to respect these borders in perpetuity, a pledge that has been kept so far despite universal skepticism at the time.
Unbeknownst to most observers at the time, more painful than any of the territorial concessions was the agreement of the Confederacy to assume its share of the pre-1861 national debts of the United States – as proportioned by population. American negotiators famously laughed in the face of Confederate negotiators who claimed it unfair when their American counterparts suggested counting slaves as "3/5ths" of a citizen for purposes of debt apportionment. Worst of all for the CSA was that the debt was denominated in US dollars, not the nearly useless Confederate dollar. Confederate inability to pay such debts, as small as they were by American standards (the 1867 debt of the USA was $4 USD billion, while the CSA share of 1861 debt came out to under $40 USD million), would eventually prove disastrous to its political class.
One 20th century Marxist Southron politician joked about what he called the "dual ironies of 1867" – first, how the assassination of pro-war President McClellan by an abolitionist radical famously elevated a pro-peace politician in the White House.[2] Second, in their quest for power, Slave Power bankrupted the new nation and sent nearly 400,000 Southrons to their graves, ensuring American economic dominance of the nascent Confederacy.[3] He lamented that "if not for the First Revolution, we would have at least gotten to vote on the terms of our subordination."…"
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