Its main object is, by any sort of alliance on any real or pretended popular issue, to gain strength enough to unite with the solid south, so that it may restore to power, in all departments of the national government, the very same doctrines that led to the Civil War, and the very men who waged it against the Union.
Sherman critiques the political alliances that threaten to revive pre-Civil War ideologies.
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What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.
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