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Chief Seattle considered strange that the American government would want to buy the land on which the tribe is living because he questioned the President of the United States how he wanted to put a price on elements that had no material or monetary value such as the freshness of the air, or the beauty of the sky. How he questioned US President Franklin Pierce, there was a price for the sparkle of the water.
Chief Seattle's view of this land was that mother Earth was something sacred for the Native American Indians. Nature was holy for his tribe. All the elements of nature were sacred and celebrated by the Native Indians. That is why they performed dances to the elements and chants, to thank mother nature for everything it provided.
The main way in which the Republicans and Radical Republicans differed over the issue of Reconstruction is that "<span>Radical Republicans wanted to see the South punished, while Republicans supported Lincoln’s plan," since the Radicals had very little sympathy for the South after the war ended. </span>
Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
