Excerpt from History of the State of New York, Vol. 3: Political and Governmental; 1865 1896 With the close Of the Civil War, the Republican party, formed in 1854, unsuccessful with Fremont as its Standard bearer in 1856, successful in 1860 under the leadership of Lincoln, had become well organized and established as one Of the two great parties. The opposition necessarily remained with the Democratic party to which the former pro-slavery states naturally attached themselves politically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.