I favored the proper observance of the Sabbath day, claiming that it was a day of rest and should not be desecrated, but each congregation and each citizen should be at liberty to observe it in any way, consistent with good order and noninterference with others.
Sherman advocates for the observance of the Sabbath while respecting individual freedoms.
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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!
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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