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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Honest American Voter's Little
+Catechism for 1880, by Blythe  Harding
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+Title: The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880
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+Author: Blythe  Harding
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+Release Date: February 14, 2009 [EBook #28079]
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+THE
+
+HONEST AMERICAN VOTER'S
+
+LITTLE CATECHISM
+
+FOR
+
+1880.
+
+
+BY
+
+BLYTHE HARDING.
+
+
+Copyrighted, 1880.
+
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+John Polhemus, Publisher, 102 Nassau Street.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+I was invited the other day to take down, as Stenographer, what
+purported to be a discussion upon some general political topics, and
+more especially on the forthcoming presidential election. One of the
+disputants entrenched himself in what, I believe, scholars call the
+Socratic method, that is, he _pumped_ his supposed antagonist dry.
+Whether the world at large may think the dialogue as funny as I did
+myself, I can form no opinion. It is to solve this question that I
+give it to the public.
+
+BLYTHE HARDING.
+
+NEW YORK, _August 31st, 1880_.
+
+
+
+
+THE DIALOGUE.
+
+
+What is a republic?
+
+--A state, or Union of states, in which the people holds supreme
+power.
+
+How does the people exercise this power?
+
+--Through men elected for this purpose.
+
+What are these men called?
+
+--Senators and members of Congress or Congressmen.
+
+Is there a head or chief in a republic?
+
+--Certainly.
+
+What is he called?
+
+--The President.
+
+Must the President be elected?
+
+--Yes, by the people.
+
+Who declares the voice of the people in this matter?
+
+--The electors of the different states, appointed to do it by the
+people.
+
+Is it necessary that the whole people should agree on one man in order
+to elect him?
+
+--No; it only needs a majority of the nation, voting through the
+electors.
+
+Do the votes of the electors generally follow the voice of the people
+in the different states?
+
+--They ought to follow it.
+
+Are the electors considered bound to vote as the majority of the
+people in their different states direct?
+
+--Undoubtedly they are.
+
+Then it is fair to say that the vote of a majority of the electors
+show which way the majority of the people voted?
+
+--That's a simple question. Why, of course!
+
+What are the duties of the President?
+
+--To mind the business of the nation, and his own, too.
+
+Anything else?
+
+--Isn't that enough?
+
+Well, but what is that business?
+
+--The business of the nation?
+
+Yes.
+
+--He makes treaties, weeds out old political hacks, and sends them
+on embassies where they cannot annoy him, and have nothing to do;
+appoints Judges of the Supreme Court like Joe Bradley, when he wants
+to play eight-to-seven, commands the army and navy, gets fifty
+thousand dollars a year, takes all the presents he can get, lives
+in the White House, and does a kind of general housekeeping business
+for the country.
+
+I was not talking of Grant. Let that go. Does he do anything else?
+
+--Yes; if he comes from Ohio, he fills nearly every place he's got
+to give away with lean, hungry Ohio men, so that you can get a "whiff"
+of that state all over Washington, and in a good many other places
+too, any time of the day or night.
+
+Really I don't understand you. All our Presidents do not come from
+Ohio or Illinois!
+
+--Thank God they don't.
+
+Just tell me what the Senators have to do?
+
+--To prevent Congressmen from making fools of themselves.
+
+Anything else?
+
+--Yes; to keep an eye on the "jobs" Congressmen are always trying
+to put through.
+
+What are the duties of Congressmen?
+
+--God knows! I don't think they do themselves.
+
+What should you think?
+
+--From the way they go on, I should say: to make a grab whenever
+they can.
+
+Who is now President of the United States?
+
+--Samuel J. Tilden.
+
+That is a mistake. The present President of the United States is
+Rutherford B. Hayes.
+
+--He is, is he? Yes, just about as much as I'm owner of Central Park,
+when I sit down on a bench there.
+
+What do you mean?
+
+--I mean to say a man can't be President of this country unless he
+is elected, and Hayes was never elected.
+
+Who was elected then?
+
+--Why, Samuel J. Tilden, to be sure!
+
+Then how did Hayes get in?
+
+--He had some "statesmen" working for him, who kept the right man
+out and pushed him in.
+
+Do you really mean that?
+
+--As certain as death.
+
+Very strange! Who were these "statesmen;" I suppose you mean his
+friends?
+
+--Friends, indeed! Yes, like wolves are to sheep.
+
+Is Mr. Hayes a sheep?
+
+--The people that put him where he is, have made him sheepish enough;
+but he isn't a sheep. His hide is too thick for that. He would be a
+mule, _only he isn't quite big enough_.
+
+Ah! You have a strange way of expressing yourself. But tell me, who
+were his "friends" as you call them?
+
+--The same men that "worked" Grant.
+
+What do you mean by "working" Grant?
+
+--Putting a pair of "blinkers" on him, and then stealing everything
+they could lay their hands on; and then when they were going to be
+turned out, stealing the presidency so as to get another "hack" at
+the "swag."
+
+Really, this language sounds dreadful, I don't understand it; but
+I suppose you mean right.
+
+--Mean right? I should think I do. I _am_ right. Only in talking of
+thieves, I am using the language of thieves. They simply wanted to
+keep their places and go on plundering the people.
+
+Speaking about General Grant, what kind of a President was he?
+
+--The best judge of whiskey, cigars and horses that ever stepped
+into the White House.
+
+Heavens! how dull you are! I'm not talking about whiskey and cigars,
+I mean what were his gifts?
+
+--Gifts? to whom? I never heard that he made any gifts. He took
+everything offered him from a brownstone front downwards, until it
+got to a bull-pup with the expressage unpaid--there he stopped.
+
+Shall I ever get you to understand me? I mean had he any good
+qualities?
+
+--Yes; he had. He wore a padlock on his mouth, was a rattling fighter,
+and stuck to his friends. In fact, he was generally bull-headed, _as
+it were_.
+
+Good enough! But these are not the qualities I am speaking of. I mean
+qualities that the people look for in a President. Perhaps "sticking
+to his friends" may have been one. What do you mean by that?
+
+--What do I mean? Why, screening and protecting a set of rascals not
+half as honest as nine-tenths of the men in jail for robbery.
+
+Do you mean me to understand by screening that he did what they do
+with coal, sift out the little ones and keep in the big ones?
+
+--Not at all. There was no "sift" to Grant; he stuck to the whole
+lot until the Republican party told him he must either let them go
+or lose the country.
+
+By the way, are the Republicans good people?
+
+--Yes; just as good as any other, and a good deal better, if they
+were only Democrats.
+
+Why do you complain of them, then?
+
+--I don't complain of the honest Republican people of the country.
+I complain of the Republican politicians.
+
+What is a "politician?"
+
+--Sometimes an honest man like John Morrissey; hardly ever a fool;
+generally a knave.
+
+What do you mean by a political party?
+
+--The term has two meanings. First, all the honest people of
+the country who believe in a given set of political principles.
+Secondly, it means all the political office-holders, _managers_
+and wire-pullers, whose business is to throw dust in the eyes of
+the non-politicians (_i. e._, the simple voters).
+
+_In this latter sense_ how many parties are there?
+
+--A good many people think there is only one.
+
+To what party does Mr. Hayes belong?
+
+--To the Orange party.
+
+What is that?
+
+--The temperance party that takes its rum in iced oranges.
+
+Is he an able man?
+
+--Yes; able to take a kicking from the Republicans better than any
+other man in the country.
+
+What do you mean by taking a kicking?
+
+--Why, accepting the toe of the political boot.
+
+Can you name any one who has operated on him in this delicate manner?
+
+--Yes; Roscoe Conkling.
+
+Would you call _him_ a good kicker or bootist?
+
+--Yes; tip-top.
+
+What proof have you of this?
+
+--When Hayes and Sherman kicked Cornell out of office, Roscoe kicked
+him back on them as governor of the state of New York. When they
+kicked Arthur out of the custom-house, Roscoe kicked him into the
+second place on the Republican ticket.
+
+Any further proof?
+
+--Yes; he kicked Evarts to New York to talk for Cornell, whom, as
+before said, the administration kicked out. John Sherman was afraid
+of his toe when he spoke lately at Washington _in favor_ of the man
+whom he forced the President to kick out, saying he was unfit for
+the office he held. At last it looks as if Roscoe was going to kick
+himself into talking for Garfield, whom he despises.
+
+Why should he do that?
+
+--Oh! it's only the "machine" working.
+
+I don't understand.
+
+--Have you ever seen a bull trying to stop a locomotive?
+
+No.
+
+--Well, if ever you do, you'll see something like a politician trying
+to butt against the "party," _alias_ the "machine."
+
+Then is the great bootist afraid of the "machine?"
+
+--I don't think he's afraid of anything. But he knows there's no use
+kicking against _that_.
+
+By the way, you said Hayes had been put into office without being
+elected, had Conkling anything to do with that?
+
+--No. He's too proud a man to stoop to any dirty work. He has held
+Hayes' administration at arm's length, and never gone near them except
+when he was on the "kick."
+
+Then who did put Hayes into office?
+
+--There were a good many in the job. Thirty-three in Florida and
+seventy-two in Louisiana; Garfield and John Sherman, chief
+"engineers."
+
+Do you mean to say that the man nominated by the Republicans for
+President, and the Secretary of the Treasury countenanced the men
+who forced Hayes on the country?
+
+--If not, why were rewards promised the rascals for doing it? When
+the job was done, and Hayes inaugurated, every one of the scoundrels
+was "provided for."
+
+Didn't the other party protest?
+
+--Of course they did. But it was the old story of the fly and spider.
+
+In what way?
+
+--The 'Pubs got the 'Crats to consent to have the difficulty settled
+by an Electoral Commission and then euchred them.
+
+How?
+
+--Simple enough. There were eight 'Pubs on the Commission and seven
+'Crats. They met. Up gets old Evarts. Says he to the Commissioners:
+"Boys"--I mean--"Gentlemen! The first duty of a Judge, if he wants
+very badly to find the 'cat in the bag,' is to look up the chimney."
+Here he winked at the Judges on Joe Bradley's side. They say he looked
+very much like Beecher, when he proved his innocence in Brooklyn.
+"Therefore," says he, "if the involutionary concatenation of a
+political residuum approximates to the concordant volitions of a
+Republican effervescence, it is extra self-evident that judicial
+investigation into supernumerary circumstantial totality, is beyond
+the hypodermic flexal radiation of your illustrations." The argument
+was short, but it settled the case!
+
+But I don't understand a word of it.
+
+--What does that matter? He didn't himself. But they voted on the
+question all the same.
+
+How did the vote go?
+
+--Well, that _is_ a simple question! Why eight to seven, to be sure!
+What he said was supposed to mean they had no right to take evidence.
+The 'Pubs agreed with him. They said they were there to do nothing,
+and intended to do it, and pay attention to it. They were eight. And
+they voted eight--eight, eight, eight, eight--every time.
+
+Well, but what had Garfield particularly to do with this?
+
+--First of all he said in Congress: "The Commission is clothed with
+power to hear and determine the vote of any state." * * * He declared
+on his honor (!) that the Commission had power to go down into the
+states and _review_ the act of every officer, to _open every ballot
+box_, and to pass judgment on _every ballot_ cast by seven millions
+of Americans. He said they had all the powers of the Senate and House
+of Representatives to examine into everything.
+
+And then?
+
+--Well, then, as he was playing euchre, he popped the "joker"
+(himself) on the 'Crats' left bower, and voted the Commission had
+no right to do anything of the sort. In the next game the "_joker_"
+will be discarded.
+
+How about the 'Crats, as you call them?
+
+--Well, as they were only seven, and couldn't be in two places at
+once, and vote fourteen, they threw up their hand.
+
+Why, this was simply a farce?
+
+--That's so; but it's very curious the people that were watching
+the farce didn't see anything funny about it, or laugh. They were
+quiet--very quiet. I think they had a notion the tragedy would
+come later, and then they'd change the _cast_, and take a hand in
+themselves, just to see how it would go.
+
+Please, explain yourself?
+
+--Well, during the farce, the Electoral Commission, Garfield being
+one, were the actors, and the people were the spectators. During the
+tragedy the people will be the actors, and Garfield, the Electoral
+Commission, and the "machine" politicians will be the spectators--a
+very _select_ audience. Admission free. The stage will be rather
+large, about the size of the United States. Lots of room for the
+audience. After the play there will be a procession to the White
+House in Washington. The actors will invite their special friends
+to it. I don't think Garfield, the Electoral Commission, or the
+Republican "machine" engineers, will get cards of invitation. They
+will, perhaps, be asked to a free lunch in Ohio.
+
+Now for the application.
+
+--Well, you must remember the American people are not born idiots.
+They saw through the whole of this Electoral Commission business,
+and they kept quiet. They were enraged, however, to think these
+politicians could imagine them so dead daft. I think, too, at one
+time they were within an ace of letting themselves out. If they had,
+there would have been bad work!
+
+They did better to wait.
+
+--To be sure; but what kills one is to see these same wire-pullers
+putting up a man like Garfield for President. Why, he's got the
+rottenest record of the whole lot. You hear them say he's a
+statesman. Yes, indeed! and I'm Sultan of Turkey. He's nothing
+more than a common political hack, and an unsafe one at that.
+
+How so?
+
+--_His own party_ convicted him of bribe-taking, after he had sworn
+he did nothing of the sort; many newspapers, on his own side, wanted
+him expelled from the House. Heaven knows what the _hidden_ doings
+of a man like that are. The samples that have come to light are the
+worst possible. To wind up with, he went to Chicago expressly to
+look after John Sherman's interests for the nomination, and then
+sold him clean out, boots, hat and all! No wonder he said: "My God,
+what will John Sherman say?"
+
+And what did Sherman say?
+
+--The "machine" put the screw on, and _honest_ John Sherman had to
+say he was the best man in the country to make President.
+
+Did the audience notice any swelling in John's throat?
+
+--No; but he got a bad attack of the hiccoughs soon after.
+
+Stomach too full, I suppose?
+
+--Exactly. John would have liked to _throw up_ Garfield, but the
+"machine" forced John to keep him on his stomach. That's what was
+the matter.
+
+Well, but after all, Garfield served his country?
+
+--He did, served her a good many dirty tricks.
+
+That's not what I mean. Didn't he serve in the army?
+
+--What army?
+
+The regular army.
+
+--Do you mean to insult that splendid set of officers?
+
+No, I'm serious.
+
+--He was a volunteer colonel for about a year, and then slipped into
+Congress when Hayes said any man that did so ought to be _scalped_.
+Hayes deserves one for that, anyhow.
+
+Can you mention any "hot affairs" in which he was engaged?
+
+--Yes; he led the "left" wing of the Credit Mobilier brigade in the
+raid on the Treasury, under Oakes Ames, was desperately wounded and
+received honorable mention from Schuyler Colfax, since dismissed the
+service. He headed the "forlorn hope" in the attack on the Washington
+pavements. Was again badly wounded; this time in the--no, I mean,
+_from_ behind by his own men. In this attack a _private_ named de
+Golyer used a $5,000 dollar bill for wadding, which was found when
+the wound was probed. This wound is still open, as well as the first,
+and both give the _daring partisan_ constant and dreadful annoyance.
+
+What _great_ services to the country! Go on, please.
+
+--He was conspicuous in many other engagements. He covered the advance
+of the Salary and Back Pay Brigade in another fierce assault on the
+Treasury. Here he was so desperately wounded that his friends insisted
+on his resigning and nursing his * * * character. He refused, and his
+fellow soldiers have nominated him to supersede General Hayes as
+Commander-in-Chief of the "Silent Steelers."
+
+You mean, of course, troops that charge without cheering?
+
+--Not much! I mean a corps of "crack"(s)men. They are also called the
+"Stealthy Purloiners."
+
+Can you mention any instances of Garfield's heroism?
+
+--Loads! but one will be enough. A notorious freshwater buccaneer,
+named R-be-s-n, had joined the ranks. He was just falling into the
+hands of the enemy when Garfield seized him by the seat of his pants
+and the collar of his jacket, and dragged him back into the lines.
+The sight was too much for the enemy. They grounded arms and laughed
+outright. Two or three of the men, however, "potted" the heroic
+Garfield; he was again wounded just to the right of the end of the
+spinal column!
+
+Please give me one more instance?
+
+--He held the Black Friday bridge against the assault of the banking
+and currency column. (Committee.) He reduced the enemy at one blow
+from 25,000 to 250.
+
+Good gracious! How? With a sword-stroke?
+
+--No! with a lead pencil!
+
+Do you mean he annihilated 20,000 men?
+
+--No! dollars!
+
+Explain, if you please.
+
+--Certainly. Some one high up--very high up--stood in to the tune of
+$25,000 in the Fisk and Gould arrangement when they made a "corner"
+in gold. The money was sent by express. The manager of the express
+company assured the committee, there was no such entry in the book to
+Mrs. G----. Sunset Cox astonished them with some of his "reflected"
+light. He asked for the book and read out: Mrs. U. S. G., Wh--te
+Ho--se, money package, value $25,000.
+
+Dear me!
+
+--Yes, and dear me, too! Wait a minute! Up jumps _Mentor_ Garfield
+and says: It's only a slight mistake--evidently a mistake--the dot
+ought to be removed one figure to the right, thus $250.00. Presto!
+Gentlemen! Two hundred and fifty dollars you see, instead of
+twenty-five thousand. His pals remembered this, especially Grant,
+and he turned him loose on the Democratic majorities in Louisiana
+to do the same work.
+
+He must be the very devil at figures.
+
+--Just so; but that was _wiping out_ a majority in both cases. In
+November he'll have to try his hand at figuring up a majority where
+it doesn't exist. Some difference between the two [ahem!] some
+_slight_ difference.
+
+I suppose you allude to the election?
+
+--Pre ... cisely!
+
+What is Mr. Garfield doing now?
+
+--Playing the cat.
+
+What do you mean?
+
+--Trying to cover up the record behind him.
+
+I don't see the allusion?
+
+--That kind of allusion is seen through the _nose_.
+
+Do you think this would be a _safe_ country in Mr. Garfield's hands?
+
+--What a question! Isn't he a "Jimmy"?
+
+You mean a "tool" in the hands of the 'Pubs?
+
+--You've hit it.
+
+And they are going to make him President?
+
+--Yes; President of the Salt River Navigation and Improvement Company,
+unlimited.
+
+I thought they were going to make him President of the United States?
+
+--I think they might if there wasn't some one else in the way.
+
+Who's that?
+
+--Hancock.
+
+The man that signed the Declaration?
+
+--Yes; the Declaration of Gettysburg.
+
+What is he?
+
+--A real gentleman.
+
+What else?
+
+--A great soldier.
+
+Anything more?
+
+--A true citizen.
+
+He must be a _singular_ man?
+
+--He is; there are not _two_ like him in the country.
+
+I should like to see him.
+
+--Nothing easier. He's big enough. Just _walk_ over to Governor's
+Island.
+
+How can you prove he's a gentleman?
+
+--He's an officer of the United States army.
+
+Quite sufficient. Tell me why he's a great soldier.
+
+--He saved the Union in battle.
+
+I thought Grant did that?
+
+--Grant did first-rate fighting; but if Hancock hadn't won at
+Gettysburg, Grant and his army might as well have sat down where
+they were and gone into the "Tanner" business.
+
+Did he take a part in any other great battles?
+
+--Yes; in nearly every battle fought by the army of the Potomac until
+he was carried off the field at Gettysburg.
+
+What did the country think of him?
+
+--Everything that could be thought of a brave, noble nature.
+
+What did Congress do?
+
+--Passed a special vote of thanks to him for his conspicuous part
+in the battle that saved the country.
+
+Of course they passed a vote of thanks to Garfield, too?
+
+--Yes; a _silent_ vote.
+
+How do you prove that Hancock is a true citizen?
+
+--Because he has profound respect for the laws and constitution of
+his country.
+
+When did he show this?
+
+--He has shown it all his life.
+
+But more particularly?
+
+--When the war was over he put up his sword. Grant, Garfield & Co.
+insisted he should rule with it. He refused. He told the trembling
+Southern people they had the same rights _in peace_ as all other
+American citizens, and that he would make his army protect those
+rights.
+
+What are those rights?
+
+--Trial by jury, _habeas corpus_, free speech and free press.
+
+Did he put that down in writing?
+
+--I should think he did. He wrote a letter to old Pease, the governor
+of Texas, that must have flashed into him like lightning into a
+gooseberry bush.
+
+Did he write anything else?
+
+--Yes; the great Order No. 40.
+
+I remember that. What did Andy Johnson say about it?
+
+--He said: "When a great soldier, with unrestricted power in his
+hands to oppress his fellow-men, voluntarily foregoes the chance of
+gratifying selfish ambition, and devotes himself to building up the
+liberties and strengthening the laws of his country, he presents an
+example of the highest public virtue that human nature is capable of
+practising. Whenever power _above_ the law courted his acceptance,
+he calmly put the temptation aside. By such magnanimous acts of
+forbearance he won the universal admiration of mankind, and left a
+name which has no rival in the history of the world."
+
+Did he say anything else?
+
+--Yes. He said: "I respectfully suggest to Congress that some public
+recognition of General Hancock's _patriotic_ conduct is due, if not
+to him, to the friends of law and justice throughout the country. Of
+such an act as his, at such a time, it is but fit that the dignity
+should be vindicated and the virtue proclaimed, so that its value as
+an example may not be lost to the nation."
+
+Did Congress do anything?
+
+--Never mind Congress. The American people will do it in November by
+putting him where George Washington was, so that the whole world may
+take a good, long look at him. It's impossible to knock the modesty
+out of him, so we'll take it with him, and put it "_where it will do
+the most good_."
+
+Of course, Garfield felt just like Andy Johnson in this matter?
+
+--Quite so.
+
+How did he show it?
+
+--By bringing a bill into Congress to _dismiss_ General Hancock from
+the army for insisting on all the rights of citizens _in time of
+peace_.
+
+Good heavens!
+
+--Yes, good heavens! I should say so. That wasn't the worst part of
+it. He wanted the bill voted on the _next_ day. And the act provided
+that it should _take effect as soon as it was passed_. So that, if
+General Hancock had nothing outside his pay, this soldier (?) who ran
+away from the field to go "jobbing" in Congress, would the _next day_
+have made a beggar of the man who really saved the Union!
+
+Do you think good, honest Republican voters (I don't mean the
+"machine" men), know or remember anything about it?
+
+--We live so fast that I expect many of them have let it drop out of
+their minds. _But now's the time for them to remember it._
+
+Has General Hancock shown how he can deal with trying difficulties
+since the war?
+
+--I should rather think so. Do you remember when they had the terrible
+riots in Pennsylvania, and so much property was destroyed and so many
+lives lost in and about Pittsburgh? Well, the very men who to-day are
+talking up Garfield and running down Hancock, were shaking in their
+shoes; Schurz, _whom Hancock caught trying to make himself invisible
+at Gettysburg_, among them. It was a regular Quakers' meeting.
+Finding they could make no head against it, and that the thing was
+spreading and getting to look like a revolution, what did they do?
+Why, they sent for the man whom Garfield wanted to beggar and
+disgrace, and besought him to take the thing in hand and restore
+order. They gave him full power.
+
+And how did he act?
+
+--Like a brave soldier, a true citizen and a real gentleman. While
+protecting the property of capitalists he was kind and forbearing
+to the working classes who believed they had a grievance.
+
+What was the result?
+
+--That dreadful affair was brought to a close by him without the
+shedding of one single drop of blood. Before he took command many
+had lost their lives. He put down the riot so firmly but so patiently
+that every one admired and praised him.
+
+Do you think the people of Pennsylvania forget this great service?
+
+--I wouldn't accuse them of being so ungrateful.
+
+I suppose Garfield brought in another bill to dismiss him from the
+army for not proclaiming martial law, doing the drum-head trial
+business, and having a little human-target excursion every day?
+
+--Come, come! Haven't you had enough of Garfield? Let me ask you one
+more question. Which of the two do you think is going to be the next
+President?
+
+I know which of the two _ought_ to be.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+The following corrections have been made to this text:
+
+  Page 8: Changed 'to' to 'too' (He's too proud)
+
+  Page 8: Changed . to ? (for doing it?)
+
+  Page 12: Changed 'Commander-in Chief' to 'Commander-in-Chief'
+
+  Page 16: Changed 'Gettysburgh' to 'Gettysburg' to match other
+           cases in the text.
+
+
+
+
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