DBWI: War of Northern Secession is avoided

What if the War of Northern Secession never happened? (Or the American Civil War to some of you in the "United" States still call it.)
 
The Secession was inevitable, if it hadn't been the North that seceded it would have been the South. The issues of slavery just couldn't stay under the lid forever, I'm amazed that they managed to make it as far as the 1880's. The North and the South were just on two totally separate tracks as a nation, it was impossible to keep the Union together.

I have to say, probably for the best in the end, the Old South and its United States would have just dragged the North down with their backwards and untenable economic system, and the political isolation that those institutions have brought on them wouldn't have helped either. The Federal States are better off on their own.

If, somehow, Secession could be stopped, I can only see bad things coming from it. The War was a necessary if unfortunate cleansing and reaffirmation of the national spirit.
 
To avoid the war the Northern States would have to have had more power and influence in the years before it started. The north simply didn't have the strength or the numbers to block or counter the policies made by the southern states.

A reasonable, non-ASB POD would be for the US to not lose the War of 1814 as badly as they did. Starting a war with the British Empire just as the British had beaten Napoleon was utterly stupid. Had the war started sooner, (while the British were preoccupied with Napoleon, which would have kept the bulk of their forces busy in Europe until Napoleon's demise in the spring of 1814), been avoided altogether, or had the US made a better show and their armies not been completely crushed in the Canadas, Michigan, New Ireland (OTL Maine), upstate New York, or in the Ohio valley, the North would have been at the very least the equal of the South, and perhaps would have been the dominant region of the United States in the mid 19th century.

As it happened, the US lost the war, and in the peace treaty lost New Ireland, the remainder of the St. Lawrence watershed, and everything north of the Ohio river, west of the Appalachians. This included several territories that had just been admitted as states, such as Ohio and Indiana. (Currently known as the province of Ohio. The industrial heartland of the Kingdom of Ontario*.) The British also took all of the Louisiana Territory north of either the Missouri River or the 42nd parallel, with the new border being set at whichever of those was farther south. The war and the humiliations that followed did great damage to the north, but hardly affected the south, apart from the effects of the blockade enforced by the Royal Navy.

This caused great resentment in the North, who blamed the south for getting them into the war, and for the devastation and the humiliations that followed it. Indeed, the resentment was so great even during the war, that several northern states, mostly in New England, openly contemplated secession, and had the war continued for any longer than it actually did, would probably have left the Union then and there.

(*OTL Ontario east of Lake Superior, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Upstate New York, and Illinois. One of the three North American kingdoms of the British Empire, the others being Canada** and Borelia***.
**OTL Quebec, Vermont (the north half), Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Island, and Prince Edward Island.
***The rest of OTL Canada and the US west of the Mississippi, north of the Missouri/42nd parallel, plus the entirety of Wisconsin and Minnesota.)
 
Could you anglos even keep any kind of Union together? I mean the United States of Mexico has basically been the only republic to keep a federalized and free nation together. Personally, I think it has to do with the anglo temperament. Writing from San Francisco it seems to me that our True Democratic Process is the best in the world. In reality it has been our Manifest Destiny to effectively dominate this continent.

It is no wonder that immigrants from every corner of the world come to get their piece of the Mexican churro. We are the most tolerant and prosperous nation in the world today. The idea of slavery has always been repugnant to the Latin soul, just look at the edict of Isabella and Ferdinand outlawing mistreatment of the natives. We solved the slavery problem 400 years before you anglos decided to even question it.

The only use you anglos seem to have is the our need for your job as street vendors of your delicious apple pies.
 
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Could you anglos even keep any kind of Union together? I mean the United States of Mexico has basically been the only republic to keep a federalized and free nation together. Personally, I think it has to do with the anglo temperament. Writing from San Francisco it seems to me that our True Democratic Process is the best in the world. In reality it has been our Manifest Destiny to effectively dominate this continent.

I see you don't even bother to mention the Empire. We have been politically united since the Act of Union in 1707, a touch over 300 years ago. We have also enjoyed democratic freedoms for all of that time, and more, though admittedly universal suffrage has only been around since the 20 Years War, which ended in 1934. (All men over 21 got the vote in 1913, a few weeks before The War broke out, and women (over the age of 21) got the vote in 1927.) The Kingdoms are self-governing entities that give the appearance of disunity, when in fact they are all, including Great Britain itself, answerable to the Imperial Parliament located in Ottawa, on the border between Canada and Ontario. That said, Mexico is a good example of a long-lasting democratic state that is not British, with Brazil being another, while both of the British-derived American republics are sadly as corrupt as all hell. It does seem to be your destiny to dominate North and Central America, apart from where we rule, of course. Just as it is the 'Manifest Destiny' of the Empire to dominate the whole of the world, and perhaps one day, the stars.
 
The only use you anglos seem to have is the our need for your job as street vendors of your delicious apple pies.

Be fair now, their chocolate chip biscuits are also delicious.

Anyway, teir bitter disposiyioon is understandable, what with all thje coffee they drink and their weak bier. Now those canadians, they are a fne sporting bunch.

Just imagine what a disaster it would have been if the Yankees had won the Great North War? The world would never have known the best bier to be made in the Americas.
 
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