You are not called upon to guard a tyrant's throne, or to enslave a nation of freemen, neither are your exertions required to redress a fancied wrong, or to revenge a supposed insult; but you are called upon to preserve your own dwellings from the flames--your families from destruction.
Sherman emphasizes that the soldiers are defending their homes and families, not fighting for tyranny.
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The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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