I know that your southern people are brave, spirited, active, quick; no man doubts that; but if you have made any misapprehension about the northern people--if you suppose that, because they are cold, because they are not fired by your hot blood, they will not perform their duty everywhere, you are very much mistaken.
Sherman defends the resolve and capabilities of Northern people in the face of Southern bravado.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
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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