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Is not that what we are proposing to do now, by the passage of this law which I seek to have enacted, and are you not opposing that condition of things?
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Is not that what we are proposing to do now, by the passage of this law which I seek to have enacted, and are you not…”
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Sherman questions the opposition to a proposed law aimed at improving conditions.
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