Could the South Have Been "Bought Off" in 1861?

There should have been quotes around the "fair wage".
The North was much more industrial than the south and the north had the Irish to fill the "More skilled" manufacturing jobs. The agricultural endeavors of the south were much more suited to slaves as they were often seen as "chattle" or beasts of burden by the land owners, often not much more than mules with opposing digits.

 

The question of ‘Compensated emancipation” was first proposed to the so called border states, and also sent to the slave holding states of the Confederacy in mid-1862. The project was voted down in the border state legislatures, and never even presented in the eleven confederate states. So much for “buying them off”!

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Compensated Emancipation - Abraham Lincoln