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If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.

— Oliver P. Morton

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Denounce treason and uphold the cause of the Union.

Every unregenerate rebel lately in arms against his government calls himself a Democrat. Every bounty jumper, every deserter, every sneak who ran away from the draft calls himself a Democrat.

Arraignment of the Democratic Party (1866)

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.

Arraignment of the Democratic Party (1866)

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