DBWI: Thomas Jefferson Does Not Die in Office

What if President Thomas Jefferson hadn't died in office back in 1809? Would New England still have seceded from the Union or as in Henry Tortoisehawk's AH series would it have remained united albeit with some disruption and even abolish slavery?
 
I read somewhere around that the possibility of the slave states would eventually secede and form a small slave holding nation. But it makes little sense New England was in it for secession from the begging.
 
That sounds horrible. The United States would be a third rate country economically. The most dystopian suggestion I've ever heard of. :eek:
Actually the USA is a Superpower at the end. As far as you can call her an USA. Because practicly its a Super-New-England, much industrialised, but with less territory. They just fought the first mexican war and never annex old Mexico. But the old eastern states are very backwards, because they were devasted in a civil war, that ended slavery (with Abe Lincoln as US-president and Jeff Davis as leader of a rebell-goverment in Virgina)
 
Actually the USA is a Superpower at the end. As far as you can call her an USA. Because practicly its a Super-New-England, much industrialised, but with less territory. They just fought the first mexican war and never annex old Mexico. But the old eastern states are very backwards, because they were devasted in a civil war, that ended slavery (with Abe Lincoln as US-president and Jeff Davis as leader of a rebell-goverment in Virgina)

That sounds like some sarcasm then serious AH to me, at least the last part.
 
if Jefferson hadn't died (twas poisoned, say I!), he would undoubtedly have gone for a third term as President. (and wasn't he grooming one of his best pals to succeed him?)
Um, the 1808 election had already happened when he died.

In any event, I doubt him living to, oh, say, 1826 would have any noticeable effect on history.
 
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