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It is utterly idle to talk about any such terms of concession.
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Sherman dismisses the idea of discussing terms of concession as pointless.
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Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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