See The Lincoln Douglas Debates, The First Complete Unexpurgated Text, First Debate, Douglas Opening Speech. Douglas describes the origins and the purposes of the Republican Party Secret Society. See also Ch 3, Lincoln Douglas and Slavery, Zarefsky.
http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/members-of-congress/lyman-trumbull/
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Ch Eleven The Totalitarian Movement, II The Totalitarian Organization, see esp, pb, p 376, the secret society in broad daylight.
Why doesn't Foner get into this kind of stuff?
Because it would queer his Northern white Jewish liberal whitewashing account of Lincoln as a changeling in The Fiery Trial.
You see, by the time Foner writes his tome, abolitionism, negro equality, and radical republicanism had become good, and gradualism, negro inferiority, and negro colonialization bad.
So the story of Lincoln had to become one of a changeling over time into an abolitionist, a negro equalitarian, and a radical republican to get ready for reconstruction which is also viewed as real real good.
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