There is another measure to which the Republican party is bound by every obligation of honor and duty, and that is to grant to the Union soldiers of the late war, their widows and orphans, liberal pensions for their sacrifices and services in the preservation of the Union.
Sherman emphasizes the Republican party's obligation to provide pensions to Union soldiers and their families.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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