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The outrages of the Ku-Klux-Klan seemed to me to be so atrocious and wicked that the men who committed them were not only unworthy to govern, but unfit to live.
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Sherman condemns the actions of the Ku-Klux-Klan as both atrocious and unworthy of governance.
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