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Now fellow-citizens, the new south is founded upon the ruins of the old.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Now fellow-citizens, the new south is founded upon the ruins of the old.”
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Sherman asserts that the new South emerged from the remnants of the old South after the Civil War.
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