By losing his election to a southern slavocrat.How can Lincoln get back the states without war?
By losing his election to a southern slavocrat.
The Southern states lose nerve and don't make an overt attack. The next eight years are a mishmash of passive aggression, legal doublethink, and dubious proclamations ending in the would-be Confederacy quietly withdrawing its declarations of independence and agreeing to act as though the entire thing never happened.
How can Lincoln get back the states without war?