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How useless it is to talk about compromises, concessions, conciliation, adjustment, when, if everything was conceded, the integrity of the government may be broken up by a majority of a single state.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “How useless it is to talk about compromises, concessions, conciliation, adjustment, when, if everything was conceded…”
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Sherman critiques the futility of discussions about compromises when the integrity of the government is at stake.
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