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A public meeting was held in New York on May 16, which denounced this action as illegal--as a step towards revolution.
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Sherman notes the widespread condemnation of Vallandigham's arrest, reflecting concerns about governmental overreach and civil rights.
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If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
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