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John Sherman: “I felt more keenly than my client the injustice done him, and never forgave Baldwin until he was indicted for perjury…”

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I felt more keenly than my client the injustice done him, and never forgave Baldwin until he was indicted for perjury and driven out of the county in disgrace.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman expresses his personal feelings of injustice regarding a legal case he was involved in.

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