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"Keep together and the victory is ours." |
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"Keep together and the victory is ours." |
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"Huzza! Onward, we’ll bang slam’im and the rest of them this time." |
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"Murder! Big Whiskers! Save me! I’m the Ladies favorite. Hoxie! Lovely Emmeline!! – Squint Eye! Oh!!" |
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"Farewell to all my greatness. This last blow has settled me! My dear Loco Foco, stretch out your arms to me; I die!" |
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" Arrah be me soul ould Tammany, your faithful Loco Foco will die wid you! I’m< knockt all to smidereens!" |
| Locofoco was a popular nickname for the Equal Rights party, which split from the Tammany Democrats in 1835. Tammany Democrats attempted to force the radical faction from a New York nominating meeting by shutting off the gas lamps, but the dissenters simply used a new kind of self-igniting friction match called locofocos to light candles. They proceeded to nominate their own slate of candidates. The party is depicted as an Irish woman, a reference to the immigrants who usually supported Tammany candidates. | |
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"Let go my skirts, you little premonitory." |
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"Help me up Price, I’m a gone chicken." |
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"Run Eli, the jig’s up." |
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"Aye! Aye! Ming, the Devil take the hindmost!" |
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