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It forced the irrepressible conflict in the most dangerous form.
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Sherman asserts that the Nebraska bill intensified the inevitable conflict over slavery.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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.
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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