... be placed. He should exercise then the power of the Executive with the utmost liberality—that is, that pardons should be plentiful and hangings scarce.—--The War Between the States, by A. H. Stephens , Volume II, page 617. He went on to say, says Mr. Stephens, that he would be willing to be taxed to remunerate the Southern people for their slaves. He believed the people of the North were as...