The strategy of the Civil War for the Confederacy (the South) was to outlast the political will of the United States (the North) to continue the fighting the war by demonstrating that the war would be long and costly.
Dickinson believed that Congress should complete the Articles of Confederation and secure a foreign alliance before issuing a declaration.
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