The statistics with which we have been made familiar recently in the debate in the Senate, of illiteracy in the south, are appalling, but not much more so than was the condition of the western states fifty years ago.
Sherman compares the alarming illiteracy rates in the South to historical conditions in the western states, emphasizing the need for educational reform.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot.
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