Also I imagine that if the capital wasn’t moved to Philadelphia, it would likely be New York it moved to.
I’ve often thought they would have tried to move it further away from potential opponents of the Civil War like the New York Irish were. Chicago is certainly a possibility, but my imagination has generally been somewhere in Michigan, like Detroit or a surrounding area, or even Grand Rapids though that was less Yankee than most of Michigan. Toledo, Ohio would be perhaps an even better possibility that I had not thought of before – reasonably close, Yankee, secure and accessible.
I don't know for sure but I think it was
Benjamin Fitzpatrick. I could be wrong though. He was from Alabama so that would be very interesting.
Likely Fitzpatrick would have reversed Lincoln’s planned policies and tried – as John Bell planned to – to hold the Union together. He would probably have tried the failed policy of “popular sovereignty” in all territories – after all it was the policy of Stephen Douglas with whom Fitzpatrick was allied.
Most likely, with the Northern support for the Republican Party, bills to establish new states or even organize new territories would fail to pass and the anger Northern whites felt from Southern domination of the Federal government would intensify. Quite likely the Republican Party would gain seats in 1862 and nominate a more radical candidate than Lincoln in 1864, who would still sweep the free states as Lincoln did. Likely that would mean secession as was seen in the winter of 1860/1861, only four years later.