If Lincoln had not died

[LincolnMan]

If Lincoln had not died... He had said he would return to Springfield again and resume his law practice with Billy Herndon. He told Mary that he wanted to see other places-possibly the Holy Land. Maybe Robert Lincoln would have been okay with the idea of being a U.S. president. And perhaps Mary would have lived in better health-mentally and physically. And the country? Probably the healing would have taken place sooner-and civil rights more fully obtained quicker as well. And one would hope that if Lincoln had never been assassinated, that the precedent not having been established, would have been enough to prevent the assassinations of the other presidents-because such an unthinkable act was just that-beyond the pale of anyone's imagination...if Lncoln had not died.