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**** The northern blockade was notoriously porous at least at the start of the war; the British Navy was more than capable of breaking the U.S. Navy at sea (even given that the Union did have the help of the Russian Black Sea Fleet).<ref>Russia was the only major European power to provide material assistance to the USA during the Civil War. The Black Sea Fleet, expelled from its home base after the Crimean War, operated out of New York and Boston and helped enforce the blockade. A determined British effort to break the blockade would probably force Russia to withdraw its assistance.</ref> Further, resentment over the draft and the damage to trade created significant tension in the North. A Confederate victory might prompt some Northern states to break away as well (the New England states had threatened to do so twice before). Assuming a Confederate victory on the battlefield (very unlikely, considering their disadvantages) the 'conquest' of the rest of the Union might be more along the lines of the CSA taking over other breakaway states over a long period of time rather than an outright military victory.
** Take Howard Zinn as you will, but he insisted that the Confederates would've eventually freed the slaves had they won. Like all Western Powers did; it was already beginning to disappear in the most industrialized Southern states.
*** "[http://www.filibustercartoons.com/CSA.htm(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.]" - Article 9, Section 1 of the Constitution of the Confederacy. "[https://web.archive.org/web/19980128034930/http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.]" - Sentence 2 of the Causes of Secession of Mississippi. "[https://web.archive.org/web/19980128034930/http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.]" - Sentence 2 of the Causes of Secession of Georgia. "[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=76 The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution ~ African slavery as it exists amongst us ~ the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution]." - Cornerstone Speech by the Vice President of the CSA. The Confederacy seceded deliberately for the purpose of making sure that there would be no infringement in slavery (and specifically against states rights such as the right not to have humans owned as property in your territory). Given they went to war over this, and that it would take a constitutional amendment to change the fact that to the Confederacy "[http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=76 Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner–stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ~ subordination to the superior race ~ is his natural and normal condition]." it is highly unlikely that they would ever have outlawed the cornerstone on which their country was founded.
**** That applied to the congress, the state governments could still legally outlaw slavery.
***** Except they couldn't do so de-facto. They could only do so in a meaningless way. If any Southerner moved into the state and said he was "in transit" he had all his "rights" to his slaves uninfringed. The Dredd Scott Decision (Which certainly would have been cited) said that you could keep a slave in a free state FOR YEARS and he was still a slave.
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