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I charge, among other things, that these constitutional rights and privileges have been disregarded by the Democratic party, especially in the southern states.
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Sherman accuses the Democratic party of violating constitutional rights, particularly in the southern states.
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Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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