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Already fifteen hundred Union men have been massacred in cold blood (more than the entire population of some of the towns in my district), whose only crime has been loyalty to your flag. . . .
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Blaine highlights the tragic fate of Union supporters in the South, emphasizing the violence they faced for their loyalty.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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