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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