WI: Lincoln assassinated earlier, Hamlin becomes president and signs the Wade-Davis Bill?

In OTL, the Wade-Davis Bill passed both houses of Congress but Lincoln pocket vetoed it. This Bill would have called for much harsher Reconstruction from the beginning.

What if Lincoln had been assassinated before the pocket vetoed went into full effect, giving Hamlin, a Radical Republican, the chance to sign the Wade-Davis Bill into law?

How does this impact Hamlin’s presidency? How does Lincoln’s assassination impact Hamlin’s chance at being elected to a full term? How does Hamlin conduct the war effort? How would Reconstruction go with the Wade-Davis Bill and President Hamlin?
 
I think if anything Hamlin signing the Wade Davis bill could lead to a longer effort by Confederates to resist surrendering to the Union
 
While my timeline (see signature) places Lincoln's assassination and thus Hamlin's ascension to the presidency MUCH earlier, Republicans do push for a stricter Reconstruction policy. So I feel like the situations in my timeline and this hypothetical are somewhat comparable.

Basically, you have to consider not only the effect an earlier assassination has on Republican politics, but on the Confederacy and Democratic politics as well. It really depends on the circumstances of the assassination, and how closely aligned the assassin is with the Confederacy. The closer the tie is, the more Republicans and the Union are going to want to exact revenge; similarly, the closer the tie is, the more Confederates are going to feel like they have a shot to defeat the Union, and thus they'll resist surrendering for far longer. Basically, you're looking at a bloodier Civil War.

In addition, the Democratic Party is going to split the more closely-aligned the assassin is with the Confederacy. Copperheads are going to basically take the Confederate line, but War Democrats are going to want to distance themselves from this as much as possible. Also, with Hamlin as president, I feel like factionalism within the Republican Party is going to go through the roof. With a Radical as president, moderate and conservative Republicans are going to be up in arms. Sure, they'll keep their discontent masked for awhile. But I doubt Hamlin would be able to unite these disparate factions nearly as well as Lincoln was able to.
 
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