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But McKinley’s doing was the crowning stroke of union and peace.
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Watterson praises McKinley's efforts as a significant step towards national unity and peace.
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Men took their politics, as their liquor, “straight”; and this father of mine was an undoubting Democrat of the schools of Jefferson and Jackson.
He said he was as good a rebel as lived, that he was only waiting for his wound to heal to get back into the Confederate Army, and that if they wanted to hang him for a spy to go ahead.
If you carry him off a prisoner he will be exchanged back into the fighting line, and we make nothing by it.
There did seem something both audacious and grotesque in this ruthless Yankee poking in among the revered antiquities of Britain, so that the beef-eating British themselves could not restrain their laughter.
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