The only safeguard from these evils is the election of a Republican President, and the adoption of a liberal Republican policy which should be fair and even generous in the south, but firm in the maintenance of all the rights won by the war.
Sherman advocates for the election of a Republican President as a safeguard against the negative influences he associates with the Democratic Party.
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