They had cultivated a bitter sectional enmity, amounting to contempt, for the people of the north, growing partly out of the subserviency of large portions of the north to the dictation of the south, but chiefly out of the wordy violence and disregard of constitutional obligation by the Abolitionists of the north.
Sherman notes the deep-seated animosity between the North and South, fueled by various factors including abolitionist rhetoric.
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Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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