While the law stands nothing is left but to execute it, and for one I never would aid to alter the law, except to make it more effective, and would be very willing to retire on this question rather than to surrender.
Sherman advocates for the execution of the law as it stands and expresses his willingness to retire rather than compromise on it.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
Morrill's bill is a great improvement on the tariff of 1857.
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.
If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
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