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If it does not do right, you will find thousands--ay, millions--in the northern states who will stand by you.
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Sherman assures support from the northern states if the administration acts justly.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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