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the honorable representative from New York.
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Estimable colleagues.
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Two bloody years ago this month,
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his Highness King Abraham Africanus the First,
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our Great Usurping Caesar,
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violator of habeas corpus and freedom of the press,
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abuser of states' rights...
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If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
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he'd'a had your empty head impaled on a pike!
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And the country better for it!
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Your radical republican autocrat
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ruling by fiat and martial law,