It is to arm the federal courts within the limits of their constitutional power, that they may co-operate with the state courts in checking, curbing, and controlling the most dangerous combinations that now threaten the business, property, and trade of the people of the United States.
Sherman advocates for arming federal courts to collaborate with state courts in controlling dangerous combinations.
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The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
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