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What if the Nothern Democrats decided that with secession the Democratic Party name was too linked to treason for them to be associated with it and decide to form a new party in the North called the Farm and Union Party with the following platform which is considerably different in some ways from OTL Democratic Party but very simular in others.
1) Popular sovereignty in the territories as regards to slavery
2) Strictly enforced FSL
3) Blacks are banned from entering the Northern States or the western territories
4) Backs the Homestead Act but bars all Southerners who haven't joined the Union Army from taking advantage of it. Will offer to allow it as part of negotiated peace.
5) Backs the Department of Agriculture and even has it loan money to people taking advantage of the Homestead Act but bars Southerners with the same condtions as 4.
6) No draft
7) Against the EP after 1862
8) Against the 13th admendment after 1864
9) Is willling to go along with the intercontinental railroad bill if there is a seperate clause providing funding for irrigation projects. Southerners barred from irrigation loans with the same conditions as 4.
10) For negotiations with the South to end the war on the basis of reunion.