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One Republican wrote to another, after voting for this,
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he said, "This is," Quote, "The last great point
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that remains to be settled from the issues of the war"
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And Horace Greeley famously,
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in his New York Herald Tribune, in April 1870,
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after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, said, quote,
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"Let us have done with Reconstruction"--
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it was the opening line under a big headline--
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"Let us have done with Reconstruction
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The country is tired and sick of it
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Let us have peace"
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"It's over, it's done,"