Quote#Death
The leaders who are now managing the Democratic Party in this state…
Quote byOliver P. Morton · 1823–1877
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Arraignment of the Democratic Party (June 1866), As contained in Treason Exposed: Record of the Disloyal Democracy (1866), Republican Party (Ind.) State Central Committee, p. 1.
English (original)
The leaders who are now managing the Democratic Party in this state are the men who at the regular session of the legislature in 1861, declared that, if an army went from Indiana to assist in puting down the rebellion, it must first pass over their dead bodies.
— Oliver P. Morton
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the Democratic Party may be described as a common sewer and loathsome receptacle into which is emptied every element of treason
Denounce treason and uphold the cause of the Union.
If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.
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Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;