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Don't revise the Constitution.
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He would accept the Thirteenth Amendment, the end of slavery,
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because that's part of the verdict of the war,
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there wasn't any way around that,
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but he never accepted the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
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and he worked vehemently to destroy the Fourteenth Amendment,
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or at least he worked vehemently to urge states not to ratify it.
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Now, his approach to Reconstruction, once in office, was essentially this.
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He took Lincoln's lenient plan, the Ten Percent Plan,
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and he went another step further in its leniency,
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or some say several steps further.
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Instead of saying he wanted ten percent of the