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Imagine you are a former Union soldier living in the US during Reconstruction. You have just heard the news that Reconstruction is over. US troops are withdrawing from the South. Write a diary entry about an event relating to this situation.
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April 25th, 1877
I must profess my distaste for the actions which have happened in the month prior to now when this so called "Compromise" between those Dixie Boys that were allowed right back into the government they fought against and the Constitution for which they slandered not but a few years ago have now got the bargaining power to force our gallant Republican Leader Rutherford Hayes to settle this electoral dispute in which the South threatend to call this election "illegitimate" well I tell you what... They don't have much say in my mind. They called the election of Lincoln "illegitimate" as he "violated their constitutional rights" well I say that the time for Compromises is over. The "Compromise of 1877" is nothing but a slap in the face to us Union boys who fought and bled so that there shall not be no more compromise between states and that the Federal government shall rule with the Constitution alone.