Increasingly Republicans were abandoning Lincoln's position that the states had never left the Union, preferring to treat the South as conquered provinces totally subject to Congressional rule.
越来越多的共和党人开始放弃林肯的立场，即这些州从未离开联盟，而倾向于宁愿把南方当作是被征服的省份，应该完全受国会管治。