Editing Radical Republicans (section)

==Wartime==
[[File:Mathew Brady, Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government (1860–1865, full version).jpg|right|thumb|[[Salmon P. Chase]], Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury]]
After the 1860 elections, moderate Republicans dominated the Congress. Radical Republicans were often critical of Lincoln, who they believed was too slow in freeing slaves and supporting their legal equality. Lincoln put all factions in his cabinet, including Radicals like [[Salmon P. Chase]] ([[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]), whom he later appointed Chief Justice, [[James Speed]] ([[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]) and [[Edwin M. Stanton]] (Secretary of War). Lincoln appointed many Radical Republicans, such as journalist [[James Shepherd Pike]], to key diplomatic positions. Angry with Lincoln, in 1864 some Radicals briefly formed a political party called the [[Radical Democratic Party (United States)|Radical Democratic Party]],<ref>{{cite book
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</ref> with [[John C. Frémont]] as their candidate for president, until Frémont withdrew. An important Republican opponent of the Radical Republicans was [[Henry Jarvis Raymond]]. Raymond was both editor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' and also a chairman of the Republican National Committee. In Congress, the most influential Radical Republicans were U.S. Senator [[Charles Sumner]] and U.S. Representative [[Thaddeus Stevens]]. They led the call for a war that would end slavery.<ref name="Trefousse, 2001">Trefousse, ''Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian'' (2001)</ref>