If I have
played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas
with? Was it Thad. Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was it Charles
Sumner? These are the men that stop and compare themselves with the
Savior, and everybody that differs with them in opinion, and to try
to stay and arrest their diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be
denounced as a Judas.
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Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action, if you
will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance--soldiers
and citizens--to participate in these offices, God being willing I will
kick them out. I will kick them out just as fast as I can.
Let me say to you in concluding that what I have said I intended to say.
I was not provoked into this, and I care not for their menaces, the
taunts and the jeers. I care not for threats. I do not intend to be
bullied by my enemies nor overawed by my friends. But, God willing, with
your help I will veto their measures whenever any of them come to me.
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