Just a Few More Years

Intro
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln managed to win a four way race to become the first republican president. His presidential run was overviewed by the American Civil war, which was triggered by the South attempting to succeed due to Lincoln's stance on slavery. He would go on to be assasinated 2 months before the end of the war, ending his presidency 5 years in. But what if someone else took the reigns of president in the 1860 election. One man would take that role and head the government during America's terbulent history in the 1860's.

Basic Overview
In 1860, the US presidential election was 4 weeks away from occuring, with the South Democratic nomination process over and John C. Breckinridge became the nomanee. He quickley took the slavery debate and used it to his advantage. He was all for the continuation of slavery which is one of the reasons he entered against the republican nomanee, Abraham Lincoln. This alowed him to gain major support in the southern slave states. With major support in these states, he turned to the northern states, where slavery had been abolished years before, so his views were going to be less credible and gain less votes. So to gain more, he appealed to the pro-slavery voters in the north by aspousing his views on slavery and he appealed to the anti-slavery voters by aspousing his economic and foreign views earning many of the northern slave states and three anti-slavery states in the north.. He held these states by a hair by winning major debates against Lincoln and on October 30th, he stood up at Washington DC and debated all major candidates with most of the crowd siding with Breckinridge's economic, foreign and religious views. When the voting began many news papers claimed that Lincoln would win in a major landslide. It was the opposite, Lincoln came up second to Breckinridge, and on the 23rd of January 1861, Breckinridge became the 16th president of the United States of America.