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No serfs in Russia were ever greater slaves than the Cubans are to Spain.
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Sherman compares the plight of Cubans under Spanish rule to that of serfs in Russia.
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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.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
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