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I just did a bit of digging on your behalf regarding this line, and there seems to be no concrete definition of it from any official source.
That said, I found several interpretations along the way, including:
1) "You cannot wash away your sins.";
2) The blood is worn as a badge of merit on the blade;
3) The blood remains on the blade and not on your ...
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I found this mention on a historical website called the Cleaveland Civil War Roundtable:
One mob looted and burned a block of elegant houses on Lexington Avenue near Forty-Sixth Street; another set fire to the draft office on Broadway near Twenty-Ninth Street. Other rioters extorted money or liquor from merchants or saloonkeepers. When detectives heard ...
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