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Thaddeus Stevens: I wish you'd been present.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: I wish I'd been.
Thaddeus Stevens: It was a spectacle.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: You can't bring your housekeeper to the House. I won't give them gossip. This is enough. This is... it's more than enough for now.
Thaddeus Stevens: Read it to me again, my love.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Proposed.
Thaddeus Stevens: And adopted.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Adopted. An amendment to the Constituion of the United States. Section One. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Thaddeus Stevens: Section two.
Lydia Hamilton Smith: Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.


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