How Lincoln's successful attempts to unite conflicting personalities within his political cabinet led to both the abolition of slavery and the victory of the Civil War, and how they counteracted with the principles of the radical republicans ?Index:INTRODUCTION………………………………………..3HISTORICAL CONTENT………………………… …………….3LINCOLN: GRADUAL EMANCIPATOR…… ……….6RADICAL REPUBLICANS: RAPID EMANCIPATORS………9CONCLUSION……………… ……………………………………..WORKS CITED………………….. IntroductionAbraham Lincoln is known as the president who helped free the slaves, lead the Union to victory over the Confederates in the American Civil War, preserve the United States union, and modernize the economy. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued through presidential constitutional authority on January 1, 1863, declared that all slaves in the ten remaining slave states were to be freed and remain free. The Emancipation Proclamation freed between three and four million slaves, however, since it was a presidential and not congressional constitutional authority, the Emancipation Proclamation failed to free slaves in border states such as Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. In essence, the states that were under the federal government and loyal to the Union had not freed their slaves; Lincoln even stated, “When it took effect in January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves.” Some argue that Lincoln issued this proclamation in an attempt to satisfy the demands of Radical Republicans, members of a group within the Republican Party. The Radical Republicans were a group of politicians who strongly......middle of paper......omery, David. Beyond equality: Labor and radical republicans. Knopf Publishing Company, 1967. Print.• Neely, Mark. The destiny of freedom; Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties. OxfordUniversity Press, 1991. Print• Norton, Mary Beth, et al, A People and a Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. • Oakes, James. The radical and the republican. 2008. Print.• Rice, Thorndike, Allen. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by illustrious men of his time. North American Publishing Company, 1886. Print• Royale, Edward. Radicals, secularists and republicans. Manchester United Press, 1980. Print.• Sandburg, Carl and Edward Goodman. The prairie years and the war years. SterlingPublishing, 1954. Print.• Summers, Mark. Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Prosperity Gospel: Aid under the Radical Republicans. Princeton University Press, 1951, print.