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With opinions so widely divergent in the two sections, and with a fixed purpose of each to stand by them, there was no way that poor frail human nature could devise to decide the controversy except to fight.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “With opinions so widely divergent in the two sections, and with a fixed purpose of each to stand by them, there was no…”
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Sherman acknowledges the inevitability of conflict given the deep divisions and strong convictions between the North and South.
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