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The Importance Of Punishment In The Civil War

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After finally winning the war, Lincoln 's way of punishing the south was only making them pledge amnesty to the U.S. and not letting higher ranking southerners participate in the government for a selected period of time. The South should not just be welcomed back into the country, they left and the proceeded to kill hundreds of thousands of our men when we tried to bring them back into the country they were born in. They committed treason and now our president just wants to let them off the hook? If they were willing to fight a war over fairness, aka state rights, then we should teat them as any other person who committed treason would be treated because that would be fair, they should understand their
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