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Let Congress admit her as a state, and then she has the acknowledged right to form, regulate, change, or modify her domestic institutions.
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Sherman advocates for Congress to admit New Mexico as a state, granting it rights to self-govern.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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