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Excerpt from By A. O. Scott

 The radicals, led by Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the sharp-tongued chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and an aging lion of the Abolitionist movement, demand a vote on a constitutional amendment ending slavery. The conservatives in the party, whose gray eminence is Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), are lukewarm at best, preferring to push for peace talks with the Confederacy that evade a decisive solution to the problem of slavery.
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Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, was the articulate spokesman for the growing Abolitionist movement and the Ways and Means Committee. He led the radicals to simply fight for the opportunity to vote on the amendment to end slavery. However, Preston Blair, played by Hal Holbrook, led the members of the conservatives in the party who are avoiding confrontation of this fight, preferring to stall with harmony and calmness when conversing with the Confederacy rather than working towards a solution the Union is fighting for.

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