What If: The North Secedes in the ACW.

[Wolfpaw]

Let's just put it this way and save my poor brain the trauma of details: Would it be possible to be more pro-slavery than King?

Certainly. John Quitman, Bill Barksdale, James D. B. DeBow, Thomas Hindman, Laurence M. Keitt, William Porcher Miles, Edmund Ruffin, Nathaniel B. Tucker, Robert Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, and William Yancey were the heart of the "Fire-Eater" movement.

King was never as nuts as those guys, though it has been argued that his relationship with Buchanan is what caused the latter to view the South and slavery with a sympathetic, even romantic eye.