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Let me tell you, as the solemn conviction with which I address you to-night, that Andrew Johnson never will throw the power we have given him into the hands of the Copperhead party of the United States.
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Sherman expresses his strong belief in President Johnson's commitment to not align with the Copperhead party.
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