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If we hold this Union, and all the rights it secures to us, and all the hopes we have upon it, upon the whim or will of a single state, then, indeed, it is the weakest government ever devised by man.
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Sherman emphasizes the importance of the Union's stability and the dangers of state power undermining it.
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