What if Abraham Lincoln had not won the 1860 US election, and it had gone to the House? And in the House a candidate who is less anti-slavery is selected, say John Bell or Stephen Douglas? Would this delay the Civil War and if so how would it alter the Civil War? Or would the US be able to narrowly avoid a civil war, perhaps with a constitutional amendment protecting slavery in the South but forbidding its expansion(it's hard to see the North passing it, but it might be possible)? How would this alter US and world history? What if?