The Wigs Emerge as the Alternative to the Jacksonian Democracy

Jefferson Davis was James Buchanan's secretary of defense war at that time. Guess what? He probably would have been Franklin Pierce's secretary of war. Maybe any other conceivable human on earth that realistically could have been made vice president upon the death of Lincoln would have been better. We wouldn't be sitting in the clover now, but the terrain, I think, would have changed things in a positive way. That makes Johnson just a world historic piece of shit.