ABSTRACT
“What shall be done with the insurgents in this hour of triumph? … I cannot say to these wretched ringleaders: ‘I forgive you, though you have drenched a continent in blood’ … This is what I would say, could I catch the ear of President Lincoln: ‘Banish these felons thither! Establish a rigorous passport system, and make it … impossible for them to enter this purified Republic.’”
