What if Lincoln would have lived?
Lincoln was a lifelong politician who showed no scruples in using any political weapon he had.
So here is what I think, I think he would have been just as bad if not worse than the Radical Republicans were at the first sign of opposition from Southern states. But in any case he would have been gone after 1868 and some of the worst excesses in Reconstruction happened after that date anyway. Grant probably still would have been elected his successor and Grant showed himself to be a weak and easily distracted executive who let the crazies run the show.
