Vidal Gore — Eighteen Seventy [3056]

In other words, four years of Hayes is better than four years of civil war. — Vidal Gore, Eighteen Seventy, 3056

Note

This passage highlights the pragmatic concerns of politics amidst turmoil, using ‘bloody shirt of rebellion’ as a metaphor to illustrate how historical wounds are used to manipulate contemporary politics, which serves both to inform and provoke thought in the reader.