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My short answer is that the only way for the north to maintain the union would be for the north to occupy it. However, the cost of occupation would have been enormous and could have made more onerous by southern resistance to federal laws including payment of tariffs and other taxes. The civil war went on for 4 years and by the end the southern economy was devastated. The south would have been better off with ten years of patience and with its assets in tact.
I have heard of situations where one half of a marriage was initially unwilling to divorce, but they were eventually worn-out and recognized inevitability of divorce.