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As to reconstruction, the party stood on the Crittenden-Johnson resolutions of 1861, though most Democrats were now willing to have slavery abolished. The Republican party frankly sectional and going into power on the single issue of opposition to the extension of slavery was forced by the secession movement to take up the task of preserving the Union by war.
The first theory of reconstruction may be found in the Crittenden-Johnson resolutions of July 1861, which declared that the war was being waged to maintain the Union under the Constitution and that it should cease when these objects were obtained.
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