PAGE 1. Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ...................... Frontispiece 2. White House ........................................... facing 28 3. Capitol ............................................... " 44 4. Alvan E. Bovay ........................................ " 76 5. Schoolhouse at Ripon, Wis ............................. " 84 6. John C. Fremont ....................................... " 92 7. Wm. H. Seward ......................................... " 100 8. Lincoln's First Inauguration .......................... " 124 9. _New York Herald_, April 15, 1865 ..................... " 132 10. Andrew Johnson ........................................ " 140 11. Ulysses S. Grant ...................................... " 148 12. Rutherford B. Hayes ................................... " 180 13. Chester A. Arthur ..................................... " 196 14. James G. Blaine ....................................... " 204 15. Benjamin Harrison ..................................... " 213 16. John Sherman .......................................... " 220 17. Inauguration of Wm. McKinley, March, 1897, ............ " 244 18. Thos. B. Reed ......................................... " 252 19. Second Inauguration of McKinley ....................... " 260 20. Marcus A. Hanna ....................................... " 276 21. Theodore Roosevelt .................................... " 285 A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. CHAPTER I. FORMATIVE CAUSES. "_Resolved_, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery." _Republican National Platform_, 1856.