I ask if the same patriotism which brought your fathers and mine into common battlefields, amid all the storms of the Revolution, does not now rebel when you are forced into a civil war by the madness of a few men in the southern states?
Sherman invokes the shared patriotism of past generations to argue against civil war.
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The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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