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Fortunately a more numerous, courageous and intelligent population reversed all this, and led, not only to the exclusion of slavery in Kansas, but also to its abolition in the United States.
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Sherman reflects on the positive outcome of the anti-slavery movement in Kansas and its broader impact on the United States.
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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.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
I worked hard that winter, for hard work, I thought, was the way to fortune.
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