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The tempter came, like the Serpent of Eden,
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and decoyed them with the magic word, freedom.
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He put arms in their hands
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and trained their humble but emotional natures
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to deeds of violence and bloodshed,
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and sent them out to devastate their benefactors."
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Now I could go on and on
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with this particular, incredible passage.
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What you have there in that 1882 passage is the core,
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the life blood of the Lost Cause tradition.
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In 1861--
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and you've read Charles Dew's book on this--