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Here's Blair, the vice-president, the attack dog,
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on the campaign trail.
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Republicans had oppressed the South,
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claimed Blair in one speech, by subjecting it to the rule of a, quote,
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"semi-barbarous race of blacks who are polygamist
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and destined to subject white women to their unbridled lust."
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"Let White Men Rule America,"
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screamed a headline in a Louisville newspaper,
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arguing that Republicans preferred, quote,
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"native negroes to native whites."
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And everywhere Democrats labeled the Republican Party as the party of, quote,
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"the amalgamation of the races, the monstrous negro equality doctrine,"