I can find some excuse for these atrocities in the strong prejudice of caste and race in the south, growing out of centuries of slavery, but I can find no excuse for any man of any party in the north, who is willing to submit to have his political power controlled and overthrown by such means.
Sherman acknowledges the historical context of racial prejudice while condemning political manipulation in the North.
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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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You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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