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to control them and use them politically--
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in the end made an absolute best friend out of William Seward--
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but not yet.
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Seward was a dove on this.
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Seward wanted to negotiate.
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He urged evacuation of the fort and then he said
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leave the door open to voluntary reconstruction
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as it might take hold around the South,
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as southerners might see that
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this new Lincoln administration was willing to talk.
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And that isn't all that Seward did.
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Seward launched a crazy plan