The south, from a state of chaos, is showing marked evidence of growth and progress, and these two sections, no longer divided by slavery, can be united again by the same bonds that united our fathers of the revolution.
Sherman notes the South's recovery and potential for unity after the abolition of slavery.
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But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
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.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.
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