John Sherman: “No court has ever denied the power of the national government to protect its citizens in their essential rights as…”

I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.

I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.

Nothing is wanting but cultivation to make this a most delightful country.

The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.