Paul Sorrells

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Opposition to slavery and the desire to develop the West free from slavery had held the party together, but with the defeat of the Confederacy, the fissures dividing the party’s factions gaped ever wider.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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