Son of the Puritans -- Portent of things to come -- Standing east -- Practical radical -- Election to the U.S. Senate -- The new Senator from Ohio -- Emergence of a Republican leader -- The conscience of the Republican party -- The campaign of 1860 -- No compromise! -- A radical at war -- McClellan's ruin -- Success on the home front -- Routing the conservatives -- Sustaining the nation's will to fight -- Re-establishment of the Joint Committee -- Wade's greatest blunder -- The last struggles with Lincoln -- Failure of an old friend -- The fight against the President begins -- A radical overreaches himself -- The impeachment of Johnson -- One vote -- Return to Ohio