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Now for more than thirty years that party has been merely an opposition party, opposed to everything that we proposed, and having no principles or propositions of their own to present.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Now for more than thirty years that party has been merely an opposition party, opposed to everything that we proposed…”
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Sherman critiques the Democratic party for lacking principles and merely opposing Republican proposals for over thirty years.
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