"That means nigger citizenship. Now, by God, I will put him through. That will be the last speech he will ever make."
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John Wilkes Booth, to Lewis Powell after Lincoln's last public address (11 April 1865), as quoted in Blood on the Moon (2002), by Edward Steers, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, p. 91. Also mentioned in Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, by James Swanson, Harper Collins
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