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Of the young men who were my contemporaries a very large proportion became habitual drunkards and died prematurely.
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Sherman observes the tragic fate of many young men of his time who succumbed to alcoholism.
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The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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