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A more wanton and shameless overthrow of popular rights cannot be found in history.
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Sherman condemns the egregious violation of democratic principles in the context of political struggles in Kansas.
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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!
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
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