This turned the tables on my native state, and I was compelled to confess that bad men came from Ohio as well as from other states; but, if so, Ohio people excelled in the atrocity of their crimes as well as in the excellence of their merits!
Sherman acknowledges that bad individuals can come from any state, including Ohio.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
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