During his meeting with the Confederate delegation, President Lincoln calls Alexander H. Stephens (vice president of the Confederate states) "Alex". The informality is a subtle wink to Lincoln's and Stephens' shared history as former colleagues in Congress for the Whig party. They eventually moved on to different parties, which cemented the differences between the men. Abraham Lincoln - a towering Republican striving to abolish slavery - and Stephens (also known as Little Alec) - a diminutive Democrat who outspokenly defended slavery and white supremacy as a God-given right.

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