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Sherman advocates for kindness and fairness in political discourse.

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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.

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I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.

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If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.

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What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.

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