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He was elected by the Union party for his openly expressed radical sentiments, and now he seeks to rend to pieces this party.
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Sherman critiques the President for betraying the radical sentiments that led to his election.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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