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No Sessession in 1860-1
WI the Southern leadership had not seceeded following Lincoln's election or maybe had returned to the Union after a referendum in Virginia shows a clear majority against leaving the US.
I fear the outcome would be that slavery would last much longer,
Lincoln did not like slavery but felt (almost certainly correctly) that in normal circumstances the then US Constitution he could do nothing about it in existing states.