Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers, every keeper of Libby, Andersonville and Salisbury, every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labor performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child every solitary one was a Democrat.
That would have been Robert G. Ingesoll (link), undertaking to save the nation from tyranny by recommending the candidacy of James A. Garfield. For perspective, that is just four years after the Republicans bought the presidency by agreeing to let the Bourbon aristocracy do any damn thing it wanted in the old Confederacy. Oddly enough for so confirmed a Republican, Ingersoll was famously opposed to mainsream religion. "An honest god," my notes quote him saying, though undated, "is the noblest work of man."
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