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What pretext is given for this alarming condition of affairs?-- for every treasonable act has its pretext.
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Sherman questions the justifications for the current state of political unrest, implying they are unfounded.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
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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