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If your people will not aid the government in maintaining the public property in the seceding states, then we must do it in spite of you, or perish in the attempt.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “If your people will not aid the government in maintaining the public property in the seceding states, then we must do it…”
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Sherman insists on the necessity of government action to maintain public property in seceding states.
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