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But we are not to allow our friends to defeat one outrage and fraud by another.
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Sherman advocates for ethical conduct in politics, rejecting the idea of responding to fraud with further wrongdoing.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
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.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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