Whig Party (The War of Secession)

The Whig Party is one of the two major parties in the Confederate Congress having been seating in the first congress at the inaugural session. The Whig Party are noted as Paternal Industrialists putting them at odds with Democrats in regards to the development of the Confederate states economy. The Whigs differ from the Democrats in that they seek to establish an equality of opportunity through a meritocratic system. Unlike the Democrats the Whigs see individualism as a dangerous impulse and encourage a collective society. They desire a public education system as part of achieving this order. They are largely motivated by Evangelical Christianity seeking to use education to promote a moral life style. They believe that slavery will be gradually abolished as masters become burdened by a Christian Conscience and the Industrial Revolution continues it's spread thoughout the South. The Whigs of the Confederacy prior to the War of Secession feared sudden abolition as disruptive to the social order and believed that without a public education system in place freedmen would become a social burden drawn to vice. They are presently a minority within Congress (1865/66) working towards thier goals of a modernized Southern nation that has less dependency on agriculture.