I believed also that the social influence of Washington, and the wealth and property controlled and owned in a great measure by slaveholding residents there, had been always against the government of the United States and in favor of the Rebellion.
Sherman believes that the social influence of Washington and its slaveholding residents had historically undermined the U.S. government and supported the Rebellion.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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