Congress thought President Lincoln was being to sincere and forgiving toward the Confederate side of the US (remember that they seceded from the Union and formed their own goverment which started the American Civil War).
They are made up of big groups
The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. ... By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials.
It was the Egyptian Civilization that used a 365-day calendar and built cities at Thebes and Memphis