In the language of Lincoln, 'To bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.' Impressed with this obligation, the Republican party has gone as far as prudence will allow.
Sherman quotes Lincoln to highlight the Republican party's duty to care for veterans and their families.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
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