No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried … - Rutherford B. Hayes

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Rutherford B. Hayes

No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

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