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He may varnish it up, but, after all, he must admit that he disappoints the reasonable expectations of those who intrusted him with power.
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Sherman accuses the President of failing to meet the expectations of those who supported him.
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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.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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