WI: Seward in '60?

Wolfpaw

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So, what if William Seward had gotten the Republican nod instead of Lincoln in 1860? If he wins, how does he handle the Civil War?

I suppose Clay would get the VP slot, though that may make the ticket too "radical." Perhaps Ed Bates?
 
I always thought that Seward would be too radical, and there may actually be a greater chance that the South may actually succeed in seceding.

Just my opinion.
 
I think - if I remember what I read on Shelby Foote's book correctly - Seward thought that war with Britain would unite the North and South behind a common cause and against a common enemy.
 
I think - if I remember what I read on Shelby Foote's book correctly - Seward thought that war with Britain would unite the North and South behind a common cause and against a common enemy.
I remember hearing about that too.
That looks like a surefire way for a reverse DoD secession disaster.
 
My recent reading seems to indicate that the Seward "wanted a war with Britain to unite the nation" was a lot of rhetoric and newspaper hyperbole taken as a sincere intention, which it was not. Seward was not that naïve.
 
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