The people, alarmed, excited, yet true to the Union and the constitution, are watching with eager fear, lest the noble government, baptized in the blood of the Revolution, shall be broken into fragments, before the President elect shall assume the functions of his office.
Sherman describes the anxious state of the public as they await the new President's assumption of office.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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