Goodmorning Forgiveness.

  As the Civil War ended President Lincoln had a thought to grant amnesty to the Southern Confederacy. I believe that such an act should not have been granted. Lincoln was generous, but sometimes he needs to know when enough was enough. Looking from his point of view, he wanted to keep the whole country together, so pardoning the Southerns he thought would have brought Americans together, but the Northern Union did not share Lincoln's optimistic view. They pictured it as, they had fought for the Northern Union's peace and all those sacrifices and miseries just so the Confederacy would get a slap on the wrist and be okay. Lincoln, in my opinion should have sentenced the leaders of the rebellion to an imense punishment of some sort, not just a general pardon. Presidents should be setting an example of why citizens should obey the law, because if the Confederates just got a slap on the wrist for a whole Civil War, others would think they could get away with minor crimes. Punishment was definitely in order for that crime of seccesion.