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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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The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
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