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The Democratic party, if put in power, will repeal that law and will do nothing for prohibition that you will accept.
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Sherman warns that a Democratic government would repeal laws supporting Prohibition and fail to act on the issue.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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.
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.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
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