To grant or not to grant??

 Should the post civil war southerners have received amnesty? well this topic brings a lot of mixed feelings to my head. The north won this war i think fair and square. In my opinion the deserved to win because they had greater power and better beliefs, such as their thoughts on slavery. Now southerners were not necessarily bad people, They too had their good arguments and they were entitled to their opinions. In my opinion i think that they should have been granted amnesty. If we look at it on the positive side we can conclude many things. If we grant them amnesty we have less problems, or at least that's what we predict. It definitely helped to stop the rather controversial thinking of the Southerners and would have shown them that Abraham Lincoln was the man and he had the power, and there was nothing they could do about it!