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But when it is proposed to change it, to secure new guarantees to slavery, to extend and protect it, you invoke and arouse the anti- slavery feeling of the north to war against slavery everywhere.
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Sherman warns that proposals to change the Constitution to protect slavery will provoke anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
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