"Leading feminists opposed the Great Emancipator--details at 7"

Here's the not-so-hot scoop, as dished in Chapter 3 of Votes for Women, edited by Jean H. Baker--

In 1863 the radical wing of the Republican party were wary of Lincoln's apparent wobbling on emancipation. Leading suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the Women's Loyal National League in part to provide support for a possible alternative candidate who would adopt the radicals' uncompromising position on emancipation.

Lincoln invited Stanton and her husband to Washington for a "long talk" (in Stanton's words), in which the President sought to win her support for the Republican nomination. Stanton came away from the meeting with an improved opinion of "Abraham" (as she referred to him in a letter), but still favoring a radical alternative candidate.

In the event, however, the radical alternative John C. Fremont proved to be a dud of a candidate, and when the Democrats nominated McClellan on a peace platform, the radical Republicans "came home" to Lincoln, much as some say the conservatives will this year "come home" to McCain.

The same chapter in Votes for Women also includes a lot of interesting stuff about Republican factions in New York State at the time, and corruption thereamong. Most sensationally, Stanton's husband and son were caught up in a bribery scandal, and Stanton harbored deep suspicions that Lincoln had allowed her husband's downfall to occur. This was prior to the Lincoln-Stanton meeting mentioned above.