That a general amnesty should be accorded to all persons willing in good faith to take the required oaths, and aid in the re-establishment of civil government; and that the Executive influence should be given for the repeal of all confiscation laws.
Reid advocates for a general amnesty to facilitate the re-establishment of civil government in the South after the Civil War.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.