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I said this was not only unjust to the colored man but unjust to the white men of the north.
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Sherman argues that the injustices faced by African Americans are also unfair to Northern white men.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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