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28-761: Moderate Republicans may refer to: Within the United States Republican Party: Moderate Republicans (Reconstruction era) , active from 1854 to 1877 Moderate Republicans (United States, 1930s–1970s) or Rockefeller Republicans Moderate Republicans (modern United States) , the present-day faction In France: Moderate Republicans (France, 1848–1870) Moderate Republicans (France, 1871–1901) or Opportunist Republicans See also [ edit ] Political moderate Republican (disambiguation) Republican Party (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

56-521: A Confederate resource in the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 3–23, 1864. Most decisive of all, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta on September 1, 1864, convincing even the pessimists that the Confederacy was collapsing. Frémont and his fellow Republicans hated their former ally Postmaster General Montgomery Blair . Frémont, aware that his candidacy could result in victory for

84-540: A valuable propaganda purpose by implying the coalition's opponents were dis -unionists. The preeminent policy of the National Union Party was the preservation of the Union by the prosecution of the war to its ultimate conclusion. They rejected Copperhead proposals for a negotiated peace as humiliating and ultimately ruinous to the authority of the national government. The party's 1864 platform called for

112-688: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Moderate Republicans (Reconstruction era) Moderate Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from the party's founding before the American Civil War in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877 . They were known for their loyal support of President Abraham Lincoln 's war policies and expressed antipathy towards

140-463: Is to be appropriated as a personal compliment. The convention and the nation, I am assured, are alike animated by a higher view of the interests of the country for the present and the great future, and that part I am entitled to appropriate as a compliment is only that part which I may lay hold of as being the opinion of the convention and of the League, that I am not entirely unworthy to be entrusted with

168-507: The 1864 congressional elections , the party won 42 Senate seats (out of 54 senators seated, not including vacancies due to the secession of Confederate states) and 149 seats (out of 193) in the House of Representatives . These candidates ran under various party names, including National Union, Republican and Unconditional Union, but were part of the overall Republican/National Union effort. Upon Lincoln's death in 1865, Andrew Johnson became

196-604: The abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment , a "liberal and just" immigration policy, completion of the transcontinental railroad , and condemned the French intervention in Mexico as dangerous to republicanism . The National Union Convention was organized just before the general election of November 1864, when the Civil War was still in progress. A faction of anti-Lincoln Radical Republicans believed that Lincoln

224-528: The federal government 's efforts to preserve the Union . As the large majority of Democrats vehemently opposed Lincoln's wartime policies, especially emancipation , pro-administration War Democrats sought to cooperate with the Republicans through the formation of Union parties in key states. Besides allowing voters of diverse pre-war partisan allegiances to unite under a common banner, the Union label served

252-499: The 1869 expiration of Johnson's only term as President, the National Union Party came to an end. The platform adopted at the 1868 Republican National Convention strongly repudiated President Johnson while the platform adopted by the 1868 Democratic National Convention thanked Johnson. Johnson received dozens of votes on the first ballot of the Democratic convention, but the party ultimately nominated Horatio Seymour . Meanwhile,

280-580: The Confederacy by an all-out military effort before turning over the White House: This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward. Lincoln did not show

308-622: The Democrats, made a deal to drop out of the presidential race in exchange for Blair's removal from office. On September 22, 1864, Frémont dropped out of the race. On September 23, Lincoln asked for and received Blair's resignation. The National Union ticket went on to win handily in the election of 1864 , defeating the Democratic ticket of former Union General George B. McClellan (whom Lincoln had previously relieved of his command) and Representative George H. Pendleton from Ohio . In

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336-670: The convention. The National Union movement became little more than the Democratic Party in a new form as Republicans left the movement and returned to the old party fold by the fall. The last congressman to represent the National Union Party ended his affiliation with the party in March 1867. Johnson was impeached by the Republican-led House of Representatives in 1868 and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote. Upon

364-580: The corruption associated with the Grant administration . National Union Party (United States) Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 United States presidential election , receiving 180 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote of the free states ; opposition to Lincoln was divided, with most northern Democrats voting for Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas . Following the Republican victory, Douglas strongly condemned secession and publicly supported

392-456: The expansion of federal authority during the American Civil War . They were also skeptical of the lenient, conciliatory Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson. Some moderate Republicans were previously Radical Republicans who became disenchanted with the alleged corruption of the latter faction. Charles Sumner , a Massachusetts senator who led Radical Republicans in the 1860s, later joined reform-minded moderates as he later opposed

420-468: The fall of 1866, Johnson embarked upon a speaking tour (known as the " Swing Around the Circle ") before the 1866 Congressional elections to attempt to garner support for his policies. His swing was heavily ridiculed and proved ineffective as more of his opponents were elected. Republican National Committee chairman Henry Jarvis Raymond (1864–1866) lost the regard of the Republicans for his participation in

448-636: The first week in June 1864 in order to accommodate the War Democrats who supported the war and wished to separate themselves from the Copperheads . This is the main reason why War Democrat Andrew Johnson was nominated for vice president, instead of the incumbent Vice President Hannibal Hamlin . The National Unionists supporting the Lincoln–Johnson ticket also hoped that the new party would stress

476-482: The following goals as its platform: [P]ursuit of the war until the Confederacy surrendered unconditionally; a constitutional amendment for the abolition of slavery; aid to disabled Union veterans; continued European neutrality; enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine ; encouragement of immigration; and construction of a transcontinental railroad. It also praised the use of black troops and Lincoln's management of

504-503: The mainline Republicans decided at their 1868 national convention to use the term the National Union Republican Convention. The 1868 National Union Republican delegates nominated General Ulysses S. Grant for president and House Speaker Schuyler Colfax for vice president. In 1872, all reference to Union had disappeared. Historians regard the initial National Union coalition assembled in 1864 as part of

532-659: The moderate Liberal Republicans , later also known as " Half-Breeds ". During the 1864 United States presidential election , amidst the backdrop of the ongoing Civil War, moderate Republicans supported merging the Republican Party with the War Democrats ( Democrats who supported the continuation of the Union war effort) to form the National Union Party alliance. At the Republican National Convention (which operated under

560-501: The more militant stances advocated by the Radical Republicans . According to historian Eric Foner , congressional leaders of the faction were James G. Blaine , John A. Bingham , William P. Fessenden , Lyman Trumbull , and John Sherman . Their constituencies were primarily residents of states outside New England , where Radical Republicanism garnered insufficient support. They included " Conservative Republicans " and

588-475: The name of the " National Union National Convention " that year), they spearheaded the effort to replace Lincoln's vice president Hannibal Hamlin with Tennessee Democrat Andrew Johnson , acting out of the belief that placing a War Democrat on the presidential ticket would solidify support to ensure Lincoln's re-election. Moderate Republicans were less enthusiastic than Radical Republicans about Black suffrage, even though they otherwise embraced civil equality and

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616-490: The national character of the war. The convention's temporary chairman, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge of Kentucky, explained that he could support Lincoln on this new ticket for the following reason: As a Union party I will follow you to the ends of the earth, and to the gates of death. But as an Abolition party, as a Republican party, as a Whig party, as a Democratic party, as an American [Know-Nothing] party, I will not follow you one foot. The National Union Party adopted

644-761: The only other National Union President. After the bitter break with the Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction policies, Johnson used federal patronage to build up a party of loyalists, but it proved to be unsuccessful. Johnson's friends sponsored the 1866 National Union Convention in August 1866 in Philadelphia as part of his attempt at maintaining a coalition of supporters. The convention sought to bring together moderate and conservative Republicans and defecting Democrats and forge an unbeatable coalition behind President Johnson and his Reconstruction policy. In

672-424: The place I have occupied for the last three years. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.' In August 1864, Lincoln wrote and signed a pledge that should he lose the election, he would nonetheless defeat

700-403: The pledge to his cabinet, but asked them to sign the sealed envelope. The complexion of the war changed as the election approached. Confederate Commander Robert E. Lee 's last victory in battle occurred June 3, 1864 at Cold Harbor . Union General Ulysses S. Grant 's aggressive tactics trapped Lee in the trenches defending Richmond. Admiral David Farragut successfully shut down Mobile Bay as

728-437: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moderate Republicans . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moderate_Republicans&oldid=1193239239 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

756-476: The war. News of his nomination at the 1864 National Union National Convention elicited Lincoln's famous response on June 9, 1864: I am very grateful for the renewed confidence which has been accorded to me, both by the convention and by the National [Union] League. I am not insensible at all to the personal compliment there is in this; yet I do not allow myself to believe that any but a small portion of it

784-597: Was incompetent and could not be reelected. A number of Radical Republicans formed a party called the Radical Democracy Party and a few hundred delegates met in Cleveland starting on May 31, 1864, eventually nominating John C. Frémont , who had also been the Republicans' first presidential standard-bearer during the 1856 presidential election . Republicans loyal to Lincoln created a new name for their party in convention at Baltimore , Maryland during

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