7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7for the 1860 nomination and, all together, gave represen-
tation to every important party group. Lincoln had to deal
with even more serious factional uprisings in Congress
over the Reconstruction of the South. Lincoln’s proposal
that new state governments might be formed when 10
percent of the qualifi ed voters had taken an oath of future
loyalty to the United States was rejected by the Radicals.
They had carried through Congress the Wade-Davis Bill,
which would have permitted the remaking and readmis-
sion of states only after a majority had taken the loyalty
oath. When Lincoln pocket-vetoed that bill, its authors
published a “manifesto” denouncing him. Despite this
President Abraham Lincoln (seated centre) and his cabinet, with Lieutenant
General Winfi eld Scott, in the council chamber at the White House, litho-
graph, 1866. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.