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It was without a parallel in history, and as a matter of simple gratitude, the Republican party was entitled to the support of the entire Southern people for such magnanimity.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Stevenson argues that the Republican party deserved gratitude from the South for its magnanimity after the Civil War.
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