Still, if these allegations are true, it would be a cowardly shrinking from the gravest public duty to allow such events to deepen into precedents which would subvert the foundation of republican institutions and convert our elections into organized crimes.
Sherman warns against ignoring serious allegations that could threaten the integrity of republican institutions.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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?
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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