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I reverently thank God for our homes, for our great cities, for our state and, more than all else, for our country.
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Sherman expresses gratitude for the blessings of home, community, and country.
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Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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.
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.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
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