"The great crisis facing the country was the rebellion and anybody in the North who wanted to preserve the Union now found the principal enemy to be those Southern slave owners who had broken up the country. The institution which sustained them and the institution they went to war to defend was slavery. And more and more northerners became convinced of that. As a consequence, a lot of them went the whole way over, from being conservative, pro-Southern, pro-slavery Democrats to becoming radical Republicans. Benjamin Butler is a good example, and Edwin M. Stanton is another one."
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United States Attorneys GeneralPeople from OhioRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUnited States Secretaries of WarPeople of the American Civil War
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James M. McPherson, as quoted in "An exchange with a Civil War historian" (19 June 1995), by David Walsh, International Workers Bulletin
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Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (19 December 1814 – 24 December 1869) was the Secretary of War of the United States during the American Civil War.
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