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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,
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which is where they're all moving, and in the far West;
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Civil War veterans are moving west.
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In the election again the rhetoric got terrible
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and when the election was held it was a very violent election.
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We'll never know, no one will ever know,