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After the War—The great end and aim of our policy in dealing with the population of the revolted States ought to be the removal of all traces of the struggle from their memory. Nothing that reminds them of their defeat, and is not absolutely necessary for the safety of the Government, ought to be retained either in our legislation, or our policy. Slavery, which it is generally agreed, was the cause of the war, and which would doubtless, if its existence were protracted, keep alive the old antagonism between the two sections, is, it is admitted on all hands, gone forever.
March 3, 1865
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