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99. Joel H. Silbey, Th e American Political Nation, 1838–1893 (Stanford, CA:
    Stanford University Press, 1991), 54–55.


100. For a discussion of the Union Party that treats it as more independent of
     the Republicans, see Christopher Dell, Lincoln and the War Democrats: Th e
     Grand Erosion of Conservative Tradition (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dick-
     inson University Press, 1975). Th e details in his account, however, support
     my claim that the new party functioned to advance Republican purposes.


101. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors , chaps. 9–10.


102. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors , 313–15; Mark E. Neely Jr.,
     Th e Union Divided: Party Confl ict in the Civil War North (Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 2002), 184.


103. Avram Fechter, “Lincoln and the Civil War State,” in A History of the U.S.
     Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions , volume 1, ed. Daniel J.
     Tichenor and Richard A. Harris (Boulder, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 338.


104. McPherson, Tried by War , 174–75; Donald, Lincoln , 456–58.


105. Neely, Th e Union Divided , chap. 7.


106. Neely, Th e Union Divided , 191.


107. Neely, Th e Union Divided , 175, 186, 188–89.


108. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan , 98–99.


109. Donald, Lincoln , 331.


110. Fechter, “Lincoln and the Civil War State,” 333–34.


111. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan , 170–74, 225; Donald, Lincoln , 424.


112. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan , 168–70.


113. Robert W. Johannsen, ed., Th e Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (New
     York: Oxford University Press, 1965), 51–52.


114. Johannsen, Th e Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858.


115. Abraham Lincoln, “Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored
     Men, Washington, D.C.,” in Lincoln, Selected Speeches and Writings (New
     York: Vintage/Library of America, 1992), 338–42.


116. Foner, Reconstruction , 6.


117. Donald, Lincoln , 430–31.


118. Foner, Reconstruction , 61–62.


119. Foner, Reconstruction , chap. 2.


120. Foner, Reconstruction , 36, 61–62.


121. Fechter, “Lincoln and the Civil War State,” 334.


122. Donald, Lincoln , 471–74.


123. Fonner, Reconstruction , 55–56, 60, 63–64.


124. Donald, Lincoln , 486–88.


125. Foner, Reconstruction , 61.


126. Donald, Lincoln , 552–54.


127. Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” in Lincoln, Selected Speeches
     and Writings (New York: Vintage/Library of America, 1992), 449–50.


128. His only public support for black suff rage came in the fi nal speech he
     gave before his assassination. Foner, Reconstruction , 74.


129. Foner, Reconstruction , 68–70.