D.B.W.I. President Abraham Lincoln

I hope some of you knew that Abraham Lincoln, President Seward's Attorney General before serving as Chief Justice from 1864 until his death in 1879 was Seward's main competitor for the 1860 Republican nomination. What if he won the election and then the election. He had a reputation for excellent political skills and for moderate views. Could have made a deal with the South? Would he have accepted the Critenden Compromise?
 
He had a reputation for excellent political skills and for moderate views. Could have made a deal with the South? Would he have accepted the Critenden Compromise?
No. Don't you remember the "House Divided" speech? He might've accepted the Corwin Amendment - I remember he did write an opinion in favor of it - but he wouldn't have accepted a compromise restoring the Missouri Compromise line. And even if he did, the South wouldn't have.
 
I can't see Mr. Lincoln making a deal with the South, nor do I think the CSA would have been a failed experiment if he'd been President. Mr. Lincoln was a moderate, not a radical like Mr. Seward and Lincoln would have avoided the debacles with foreign policy Seward was responsible for and would have had a much simpler war without the shift in one year to complete social revolution in the South.

In fact, I daresay Lincoln would have appointed General Thomas to command the Army of the Potomac if the war had lasted longer, not waiting three years to make George H. Thomas leader of the major Union army under General-in-chief Grant. :mad:
 
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