"” …The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves""
"As a politician, Lincoln worked to harness the moral energies of the Norths's evangelical churches for the Republican cause. But unlike most Radicals, religious doctrine played litter role in his political outlook. The "little New Englands," including northern Illinois, where Radical Republicanism f"
"Railroads shipped farm goods previously sent to New Orleans to the burgeoning cities of the Atlantic seaboard, weakening the state's ties to the slave South. Fewer and fewer men would take goods down the river for sale, as Lincoln had done in his youth."
"Nearly all Republicans, like Lincoln, agreed that blacks were entitled to the natural rights of mankind, as enumerated the the Declaration of Independence. Most, but by no means all, also felt that basic civil rights –– protections of individual liberty and security of person and property –– ought t"