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Slavery shall gain no advantage over freedom by violating compromises," was the cry of a new party, as yet without a name.
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Sherman recounts the rallying cry of a nascent political party opposing slavery's expansion.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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