Lincoln runs on a platform of emancipation

If Lincoln runs on a platform of emancipation and still manages to win how does this effect the civil war? I believe that this would have been enough to get KY and MO to join the CSA. MD would likely want to, but like OTL I can see them being allowed to leave the union. I doubt DE throws in with the CSA but gives up its few thousand slaves.
 
Kinda like asking what would have happened if Lincoln came out as a socialist, only slightly less offensive to moderate tastes. The upper south leaves for sure.
 

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The South is unhappy but does not rebel. Assuming Douglas dies in 1861 (as he did IOTL) Herschel Johnson of Georgia becomes President and serves out his term. The South remains quiet until 1864 when a more moderate Republican is elected and the Civil War may play itself out depending on Southern feelings about the new President. Every four years that the war is delayed increased the North's military advantages vs the South and thus lowers the probability of the war happening or shortens it if it does.
 
If Lincoln runs on a platform of emancipation and still manages to win how does this effect the civil war? I believe that this would have been enough to get KY and MO to join the CSA. MD would likely want to, but like OTL I can see them being allowed to leave the union. I doubt DE throws in with the CSA but gives up its few thousand slaves.

He couldn't get the Republican nomination on such a platform in 1860. Even Thaddeus Stevens acknowledged that the federal government had no power to abolish slavery in the states; but he said, confine it to where it is, and do not let it into the territories, and the southerners themselves would eventually abolish it. https://books.google.com/books?id=MaVp-YES1F0C&pg=PA260

If Lincoln wanted to run on a platform of having the federal government emancipate the slaves in 1860, he would have to run, not as a Republican, but as the candidate of a fringe party like Gerrit Smith's Radical Abolition party. https://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/30/...ational-and-state-convention-at-syracuse.html Smith got 171 votes (popular, not electoral). https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=1967
 
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