what fitter fate for the likes of jefferson davis and robert ely then to have to live in this brave new world and bear witness to a social revolution. in essence, northerners who embraced grants terms of said to the south, we don't want to inflict further punishments. we want you to change. and confederates responded that the demand for change with a form of punishment. then any demand for change was inherently punitive and a breaking of a compact that had been made at appomattox. this contest over the surrender's meaning and simply pets the south against the north or even the confederacy against the union, it pitted those who favored a social transformation of the south against those who rejected social transformation. we have northerners and southerners on both sides of the question. here is a theme of divisions within each side. lincoln's opponent in the north political opponents, the democrats that seemed to favor coming to the confederates, these democrats were loath for the party of lincoln to treat the surrender as a mandate. these nor the democrats rallied behind a confederate i