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as Kenneth Stampp once did,
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that Lincoln actually had
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a deep personal need for personal absolution;
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that he carried this horrifying burden of all that death,
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and that he took it as his personal responsibility,
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and that this charity for all and malice toward none,
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and the leniency in Lincoln's Reconstruction ideas
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is somehow rooted in
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that sense of personal responsibility for all the suffering.
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There may be something to that.
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But his Reconstruction policy,
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such as he put it in place, at least for awhile,