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It is a high privilege to enter into American citizenship.
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Sherman expresses the honor of becoming an American citizen.
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But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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