Thanks for this.April 17, 1850: during a heated debate on the Senate floor, Senator Foote pulls a gun and threatens to shoot Senator Benton. Senator Dickinson tries to wrestle the gun away and [POD] during their struggle, Foote accidentally shoots and kills V.P. Millard Fillmore, who was standing a few feet away. Zachary Taylor still gets sick and dies that summer, resulting in David Rice Atchison as Acting President.
Under the Succession Act of 1792 there must be a special election in November 1850. It's a corrupt, chaotic shitshow, with both Atchison and Seward claiming they won, and refusing to concede to the other.
Thanks for this.
How would the cessation happen? Would Civil war still start in South Carolina?
Isn't Atchison from Missouri and Seward from New York? Both free states?
If didn't die of Cholera, would southern states just secede or would it need an even similar to fort sumter?Was said that there might have been one if Taylor had lived on.
Would Civil war still start at South Carolina or different state? Or will multiple states secede together?Atchison was extremely pro-slavery and advocated violence to prevent abolitionists and free-soilers from voting.
Under the Succession Act of 1792 there must be a special election in November 1850. It's a corrupt, chaotic shitshow, with both Atchison and Seward claiming they won, and refusing to concede to the other.
That early Texas would still be independent.Why not as early as 1832 with the Nullification Crisis?
Pierce was an accident himself, he was such a dark horse. Lewis Cass and James Buchanan were the main possibilities, Stephen Douglas was a little young yet. Cass had just lost in 1848 so my guess is Buchanan would be the favorite.This assumes that Atchison is the Demcratic nominee. No accidental POUS was nominated for an elected term until 1904. Might it just be Frnkliin Pierce two years earlier?
From what I remember of that crisis the other southern states didn’t have South Carolina’s back so it would be South Carolina vs Everyone else.Why not as early as 1832 with the Nullification Crisis?
Interestingly, I read that Benjamin W. Leigh of Virginia arrived in Charleston with resolutions that criticized both Jackson (everyone else) and South Carolina, offering his state as a third party. So it looks like Virginia might've actually gone the neutral route IOTL. If Nat Turner's Rebellion was even slightly worse, then you could very well see Virginia in the state's rights camp.From what I remember of that crisis the other southern states didn’t have South Carolina’s back so it would be South Carolina vs Everyone else.
From what I remember of that crisis the other southern states didn’t have South Carolina’s back so it would be South Carolina vs Everyone else.
Depends if more states decide to join South Carolina in the states rights camp or not.Also, do we go to war over that, or do we just say "let them fall on their face and come crawling back"?
Depends if more states decide to join South Carolina in the states rights camp or not.
Missouri was a slave state.Thanks for this.
How would the cessation happen? Would Civil war still start in South Carolina?
Isn't Atchison from Missouri and Seward from New York? Both free states?
That early and Texas would still be part of Mexico.That early Texas would still be independent.