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The result would be certain conflict, resulting in Grant's violent deposition, mine, or the President's.
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Sherman predicts that the situation could lead to a significant political upheaval involving key figures.
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Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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