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You could bring the delegates to Washington.
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In exchange for the South's immediate surrender,
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we could promise them the amendment's defeat.
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They'd agree, don't you think?
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We'd end the war. This week.
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Or if you could manage, without seeming to do it, to....
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The peace delegation might encounter delays
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as they travel up the James River.
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Particularly with the fighting around Wilmington.
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Within ten days time,
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we might pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Here's a sixteen year old boy.