Yet, as will appear hereafter, the leaders of the 33rd Congress of both parties, and mainly on sectional lines, openly and flagrantly violated the pledges of their party, and renewed a contest that was only closed by the most destructive Civil War of modern times, and by the abolition of slavery.
Sherman criticizes the leaders of the 33rd Congress for violating party pledges, leading to the Civil War.
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