He saw before him but two modes of dealing with the insurrectionary states,--one was "to bring them back into practical relations with the Union;" the other was to "hold them in military subjection.".

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"Military government," said the President, "established for an indefinite period, would offer no security for the suppression of discontent, would divide the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would envenom hatred rather than restore affection.

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