The two streams have united, and though for a time their waters may be divided by the color line, like the Mississippi and the Missouri at and after their junction, yet, in the end they will mingle in a great republic, not of sections, but of friendly states and a united people.
Sherman likens the merging of Northern and Southern states to rivers uniting, envisioning a unified republic.
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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!
The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
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.
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