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No man can contemplate the inevitable results of such a war without the most serious desire to avert it.
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Sherman reflects on the serious consequences of civil war and the desire to prevent it.
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Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
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