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The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.
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Every man that raised bloodhounds to pursue human beings
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was a Democrat.
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Soldiers, every scar you have got on your heroic bodies
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was given to you by a Democrat."
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And those Union veterans would get up and cheer,
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"Yay, scars, Democrat scars."
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It worked, it worked in a lot of places.
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The war is only ten years ago,
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and there are hundreds of thousands of Union veterans.
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They are the base of the Republican Party, a deep, broad base,
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especially across the Midwest,