The soldiers and bayonets of the United States were then withdrawn from the state house--not from the state, nor the capital of the state--but from the building in which the legislature, that alone could lawfully decide this contest, must meet.
Sherman describes the withdrawal of federal troops from a state house, highlighting the importance of local governance.
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Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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