Ak-84
Banned
In OTL, the Feds insisted that there was no right of secession but did precious little to stop it; until after the war started. Now lets say we give in ATL, President Buchannan some gumption and he decides to act.
1) He could send federal troops to S Carolina, Andrew Jackson did it in 1830's nullification crisis, first before the election of 1860 itself, when the S Carolina governor had made his states desire to seceede if Lincoln won clear. Perhaps initially by strenghtning the garrison at Fort Moultrie and also ordering Fort Sumter completed and manned without delay and later more troops arrive as soon as Lincolns election is announced (the dely would be neccessary anyway in order to move them from the west where the majority of the army was).
2) Although protests would be many, he could answer (as the Brits did in N Ireland) that this is the "American Army operating on American territory".
Now with a state with thousand of federal troops and more arriving would any secession convention be tolerated or even be possible? How would other states react, in OTL they waited several weeks before the they followed S Carolina's lead. Would the American civil war be butterflied away?
How would it alter US history.
1) He could send federal troops to S Carolina, Andrew Jackson did it in 1830's nullification crisis, first before the election of 1860 itself, when the S Carolina governor had made his states desire to seceede if Lincoln won clear. Perhaps initially by strenghtning the garrison at Fort Moultrie and also ordering Fort Sumter completed and manned without delay and later more troops arrive as soon as Lincolns election is announced (the dely would be neccessary anyway in order to move them from the west where the majority of the army was).
2) Although protests would be many, he could answer (as the Brits did in N Ireland) that this is the "American Army operating on American territory".
Now with a state with thousand of federal troops and more arriving would any secession convention be tolerated or even be possible? How would other states react, in OTL they waited several weeks before the they followed S Carolina's lead. Would the American civil war be butterflied away?
How would it alter US history.