I vote for him simply because he has had the manliness to say here, that, having the power, he will resist the encroachments of slavery, even by opposing the admission of any slave state that may be formed out of the territory north and west of Missouri.
Sherman articulates his support for a candidate based on their stance against the expansion of slavery.
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They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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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