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Undoubtedly, the existence of negro slavery in the south was the governing excitement to war.
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Sherman reflects on the primary cause of the Civil War, emphasizing the role of slavery.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
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