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The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
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Acceptance of Liberal Republican nomination as President (May 29, 1872).

 

Horace Greeley

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Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally — and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

 

Rutherford B. Hayes

 

Florida's Southern all right. Why North Florida and South Georgia are about the same, same folks, same ways, same ways of making a living. Florida is a Southern state sharing the fate of the South. Of course, North Florida and South Florida are different. There are a lot of Northerners in the South and they're different from the old farm and plantation folks in the North. They usually say down here that Ocala is about the dividing line.

 

Fred P. Cone

 

What troops
Of generous boys in happiness thus bred —
Saturnians through life's Tempe led,
Went from the North and came from the South,
With golden mottoes in the mouth,
To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

 

Herman Melville

 

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

 

Susan B. Anthony

 

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