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By his proposition the Fugitive Slave Law was to be repealed, and in its place the respective States were to return fugitives or to pay the value of those that might be retained.
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Boutwell discusses Johnson's proposed amendments to the Constitution that were well-received in the North.
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But General Grant was destitute of the war spirit, and he chose to exhaust all the powers of negotiation before he would advise a resort to force.
But our cause being almost lost something decisive and great must be done.
The people of the United States were embittered against the Government of Great Britain, and had General Grant chosen to seek redress by arms he would have been sustained throughout the North with substantial unanimity.
He had no policy to impose upon the country against the popular will.
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