I have not been ignorant that there has been a studied effort-- ascribed by me to the common tactics of political warfare--to create the impression, by vague innuendo, that I have used my official position to make money for myself.
Sherman addresses accusations suggesting he has profited from his political position.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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?
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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