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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.”
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Sherman accuses his political opponents of misleading the public about Republican principles.
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