They came to General. Thats Power.
The Republican nomination of Abraham Lincoln for president suited the National Reformers. In making the case for tariffs and "internal improvements," he argued that human labor provided the only just measure of value and asserted that the worker ideally should receive "the whole product of labor"--a concept identified with "Ricardian socialism." He was confronted by what he saw as regressive innovations; he had committed what his partner called "political suicide" by opposing the Mexican War. Through the 1850's, he, like the Agarians, listened to politicians in the North as well as the South who suggested modifying the principles of 1776; also, like the Agrarians, he thought it "endangered our republican institutions," and he made the Declaration of Independence one of the key themes of his 1858 senatorial debate with Stephen A. Douglas. He repeatedly demonstrated an affinity for the developing labor movement and its right to organize and to strike, establishing a record correctly described by one historian as "unmatched in American history" on labor. He had his own copy of Kellogg's book Labor and Capital advocating the government issuance and regulation of paper currency as a just means of redistributing wealth, and he corresponded with the author's son-in-law. His Illinois admirers included land reformers such as John Newlin and B.J.F. Hanna, as well as his close adviser Jesse Wilson Fell and his biographer John L. Scripps. Having repeatedly declared his support for the measure. Lincoln would, as the chief executive, preside over the passage of the Homestead Act. pp122-123 Young America by Mark A Lause
Easy to see why the Liberal Republicans split with Grant. Lincoln's Republican Party died with him. Land Reform had a lot to do with the Civil War.