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…showed last 75 words of 492 total…though his strategies were commendable also. In history, the secession of the Southern states and the war following it will be seen as tragedies and mistakes. This blemish on American history could have been avoided has Southern leaders realized that all the bloodshed of the war was a doomed enterprise from the beginning. Henry Clay, the great compromise, would not have been happy with the failure of any bloodless compromise to be reached. (source one)