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The phrase "Tonight I will make Lincoln pay for the South's defeat" is attributed to John Wilkes Booth. He reportedly said this before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, as part of his plot to avenge the South's loss in the Civil War. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer and believed that killing Lincoln would help revive the Southern cause.

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