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Charles Beard had a different meaning than Eric Foner,
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and others of us have used it.
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But which revolution would prevail?
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Is it the revolution of 1863 to '65?
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Is it the revolution that Abraham Lincoln finally named,
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and then said would be enforced, very bluntly,
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in his Second Inaugural?
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"With every drop of blood shed by the lash it shall be paid
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in blood shed by the sword."
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Or is it the other revolution,
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the counter-revolution,
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the white Southern Democratic revolution against Reconstruction,