It strengthened the Free State sentiment in Kansas, it aroused public sentiment in the north, and drove the south to adopt new and strange theories which led to divisions in the Democratic party and its disruption and overthrow in 1860.
Sherman discusses the impact of his legislative efforts on public sentiment regarding slavery and the Democratic party's divisions.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
I worked hard that winter, for hard work, I thought, was the way to fortune.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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