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A fair election would have given us about forty electoral votes at the south--at least that many.
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Sherman argues that a fair election could have significantly changed the political landscape in the South.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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?
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
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