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the terrible bloodletting in Virginia is coming in
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and the thousands and thousands of names on casualty lists,
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and Congress issues what's known as the Wade-Davis Bill,
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named for Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio,
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a strong anti-slavery Radical Republican,
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and Henry Winter Davis, a Congressman from Maryland,
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also of at least moderate anti-slavery credentials.
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What you have here is the blueprint of Radical Reconstruction,
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at least the beginning blueprint.
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The Wade-Davis Bill said, they took--the first part of it
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was they took Lincoln's Ten-Percent idea,
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ten percent of the voting population of a Southern state,