"Every man who labored for the rebellion in the field, who murdered Union prisoners by cruelty and starvation, who conspired to bring about civil war in the loyal states, who invented dangerous compounds to burn steamboats and northern cities,, who contrived hellish schemes to introduce into northern cities the wasting pestilence of yellow fever, calls himself a Democrat. Every dishonest contractor who has been convicted of defrauding the government, every dishonest paymaster or disbursing officer who has been convicted of squandering the public money at the gaming table or in gold gambling operations, every officer in the army who was dismissed fur cowardice or disloyalty, calls himself a Democrat."
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Oliver P. Morton
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (4 August 1823 – 1 November 1877) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Indiana and a member of the U.S. Republican Party. He served as the 14th Governor of Indiana.
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