Abraham Lincoln and the Union : a chronicle of the embattled North . THE PLEBISCITE OF 1864 241 of the National Union League, to suppose thateither the Convention or the League have con-cluded to decide that I am either the greatest or thebest man in America, but rather they have con-cluded it is not best to swap horses while crossingthe river, and have further concluded that I amnot so poor a horse that they might not make abotch of it in trying to swap. But the UnionParty was so far from being a unit that duringthe summer factional quarrels developed withinits ranks. All the elements that we
Abraham Lincoln and the Union : a chronicle of the embattled North . THE PLEBISCITE OF 1864 241 of the National Union League, to suppose thateither the Convention or the League have con-cluded to decide that I am either the greatest or thebest man in America, but rather they have con-cluded it is not best to swap horses while crossingthe river, and have further concluded that I amnot so poor a horse that they might not make abotch of it in trying to swap. But the UnionParty was so far from being a unit that duringthe summer factional quarrels developed withinits ranks. All the elements that were unfriendlyto Lincoln took heart from a dispute between thePresident and Congress with regard to reconstruc-tion in Louisiana, over a large part of which Fed-eral troops had established a civil governmenton the Presidents authority. As an incident inthe history of reconstruction, this whole matterhas its place in another volume. ^ But it also has aplace in the history of the presidential campaignof 1864. Lincolns plan of reconstruction was ob-noxious to the Radi
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