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This is an example of the malice and hatred of Stevens and other radicals in the north.

Stephens didn't want Lee tried. It was a southern man, a Democrat, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee who wanted to see him hang.

Thad Stephens was just about on his death bed at the end of the war, and his remaining efforts were on securing civil rights, including the right to vote, for freed slaves. He also wanted Johnson impeached!

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The fiasco and idiocy of Reconstruction was driven by radical republicans.