Exactly! Too bad Jefferson did not heed his own vision.
The point is that ideas and actions have consequences. Jefferson was right. Some 36 years after he died the Republic he helped to found broke up. He was prescient.
Indeed. Not only did the dream of an independent Confederacy perish, but the Federal System established by the Constitutio of 1787 also died. What arose after the War was National Government. The Federal System consisting of sovereign States was gone. The final nail in the coffin was the 17=th amendment whereby Senators were elected directly by the people. The States were cut out of the loop.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." 
