Ok, stare decisis is the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent. So you tell me what you think.
It is first important to understand that not all Republicans rejected a peace settlement with the Confederates during or after the Civil War, but it was a smaller group within the party that totally and completely refused and demanded a full surrender without conditions to the South. This group was called the Radical Republicans and they began around 1854 and went until after the Reconstruction of 1877. They were the ones who were responsible for the establishment of the Fourteenth Ammendment and they radically opposed any negotiations with the South on the basis of their being totally against segregation and slavery. Some other factions within the Republican party, including Lincoln, were more moderate and were willing to give in to some of the demands from the Confederates, especially ont he issue of slaves.
The reason for these radical Republicans not wanting to negotiate with the Southern Confederates, was that they refused to allow slavery to continue. They were pushing for all slaves in the U.S to be freed, for segregation to be prohibited, for rights for black people to be established in the United States and even went as far as pushing for civil rights, including suffrage, for African Americans. But the South, of course, refused these terms. This is why neither Radical Republicans, nor Confederate members would have been able to settle anything in a negotiation. There was no common ground for the toughest issue of all; slavery.
Cixi's Court Member - Honorable Officer, it is important for us that you stop calling disorder or rebellion to what in our estimation is a patriotic movement against the offense that your united forces have exercised over China.
Meiji's Gov Official - That will be possible, Dear Sir, to the extent that you begin to give credit for the need for our joint intervention in the serious events that China is going through, under the current Dynasty.
Cixi's Court Member - It is sad for me to have to agree with you, that these events happen at the worst moment of our Civilization because, never as now, we had been so vulnerable, as a product of our internal quarrels. It will also be elegant on your part to accept that it has been necessary that a great alliance of nations with their own interests of foreign interference have had to unite in order to face our Great Empire .
Meiji's Gov Official - I must admit to you some reason when you say that there are many nations involved in this controversy, great will be the reparations of war that China will have to face now for the long 40 years of damages that have caused us to breach trade agreements.
Cixi's Court Member - Unequal and unfair are the treaties that force us to sign today, but let me assure you that the interests of your countries are so diverse that your weak alliances will only turn against you, your current union may have bent our strength already divided by internal struggles, but could that union now be superior to the diverse interests of each of its governments? Can you ever agree on how to divide your areas of influence in our vast territory?
Meiji's Gov Official - It certainly sounds like an impossible task. For the time being, we have to focus on putting an end to the social revolts and the containment of the rebel boxers. That will be for now healthy for all, while we wait for the arrival of new times.
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