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Historian Allen C. Guelzo on Hard Choices and Robert E. Lee

The Daily Stoic

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What Is Clemency?

Lincoln had a plan that obviously gets cut short. But some sense of how one threads that needle of being both merciful, but also not enabling the seeds of a movement that caused the crime or the war in the first place. It seemslike what l Lincoln is recommending is exactly this kind of stoic clemency. You back offen and you saywel, we're just going to let bygones be bygones.

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