upon winning Lincoln embraces emancipation

lets say that within minutes of learning he has been elected potus Lincoln begins to advocate immediate uncompensated emancipation. what would be the results of this. I believe that first of all this would push the upper south to join the deep south much quicker. the border states would (at least KY and MO) would also be quickly pushed to the CSA. Would this be enough to push MD to embrace the CSA or would they be prevented like OTL? with more states the CSA would have more choices for potcs. it would be very likely that Breckenridge would end up president of CSA. with the additional manpower and industry and a likely better president would this be enough to win the war?
 
More like he is impeached for over exerting his presidential powers. His decision was extremely controversial even though he was explicit on which slaves are freed.
 
lets say that within minutes of learning he has been elected potus Lincoln begins to advocate immediate uncompensated emancipation. what would be the results of this.
If you mean "on the evening of Election Day", or early the next morning... Lincoln never becomes President. There would be an emergency meeting of Republican leaders within a few days, and the Republican electors would all be instructed to vote for someone else. Not Seward, but some anodyne figure who was sound on Free Soil but was beyond all doubt not an Abolitionist. Nearly all the Republican electors would go along with this. I'm sure there were many who were Abolitionists themselves, but even those would agree that "immediate uncompensated emancipation" was politically impossible, and that attempting it, or even advocating it as party policy would provoke secession in every slave state.

Many would be profoundly angry and disappointed with Lincoln for having concealed his "true views" when he was seeking the nomination and as the Republican candidate. Others would wonder whether Lincoln had gone mad, or had some religious brainstorm.

Even after the public repudiation of Lincoln by the Republican Party, there would still be grave danger. Many Southerners would be alarmed. The Fire-Eaters would argue that Lincoln was the real voice of the Republicans - that any subsequent post-election maneuvers were masquerade - and who could be sure they weren't right? This might be enough to tip the Upper South into declaring secession immediately.It would also strengthen secessionism in Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware.

Another likely consequence would be a very weak position for President-elect Anodyne. OTL, Lincoln came under great pressure to agree to the "compromise" proposals being put forward to head off secession. Anodyne would be under even greater pressure; from Southern Unionists, and from panicky Northerners, both desperate for him to do whatever was needed to reassure the South.

Anodyne would probably endorse Crittenden's Compromise, with the public support of most Republicans. Lincoln insisted that he must make no concessions: that if he gave up the Republican platform's ban on slavery in all Territories for "popular sovereignty", the South would "hold fast, pull in the slack" and demand Crittenden's Compromise; that conceded, they would "pull in the slack" again, demanding the "Border State Compromise"; that given, they would want "all that South Carolina asks".

Lincoln's incendiary election-night announcement would force Anodyne and the Republicans to start down that path, and as Lincoln realized, it would be very hard to stop halfway. Indeed, the mere replacement of Lincoln by Anodyne might not seem to be enough. Many Republicans might even doubt the good faith of the party leadership which had campaigned for Lincoln - what if they had known all along that he was a radical? Better to abandon such a party which they had joined only a few years before.

So there might be a move for Republican electors to vote for John Bell. Bell was after all an ex-Whig, like most Republicans.
 
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Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri join the Confederacy, vastly adding to its military manpower and resource base. It also gives the Confederacy a defensible frontier on the Ohio River and quickly leads to the occupation of Washington D.C. by the Confederates. Hardly any Democrats come over to Lincoln to support the war effort and recruitment for the Union Army rapidly dries up as men are unwilling to fight a war just to free slaves who will then become job competitors. All of this makes it virtually impossible for the Union to subdue the South.

IOTL, Lincoln knew exactly what he was doing when he timed the Emancipation Proclamation. Had he done it too soon, the result would have been a disaster for the Union cause.
 
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