WI: Lincoln Falls to His Melancholy

Which is a nice way of saying, what if Lincoln killed himself due to his deep and life long bouts with depression, before he became president?
 
What happens is roughly like every other timeline idea where Lincoln dies early. How he dies doesn't matter too much, as long as it's before the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
 
Seward most likely gets the nomination, he was leading at the Republican Convention until the 3rd ballot, when Lincoln ran away with it in OTL. As to a Seward presidency and how that effects the war's beginnings and it's prosecution, I'm not sure.
 
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