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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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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “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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