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in reality reconstructed in those years from 1865 to 1876, and 
that the real reconstruction of the South was only delayed.®® 
It is a noteworthy fact that the most radical of the Indiana 
delegates in the Thirty-ninth Congress, George W. Julian, 
lived to realize this fact. Writing in explanation of his course 
fn 1872 he said : 
I saw that the spirit of the imprecatory psalm was no longer in order. 
The more I pondered the policy of amnesty, the more thoroughly I became 
reconstructed in heart. I was glad enough to be delivered from the 
glamour which had been blinding my vision to the policy of reconcilia- 
tion and peace.'” 
69 Rhodes, op. cit., VII, 890, 391. 
™ Clarke, George W. Julian, 356. 
