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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,"
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and on and on it went.
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A Georgia Democrat,
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who got himself elected to the U.S. Senate, named Benjamin Hill,
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said the South was now under the rule of a foreign power,
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driven by hate and determined to dishonor an unarmed people.
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And in language understood across, you might say,