This, fellow-citizens, is about all, and is perhaps more than I ought to say about personal matters, for in the great contest in which we are about to engage, the hopes, ambitions, and even the lives, of men, are of but little account compared with the issues involved.
Sherman emphasizes the significance of the political issues at stake over personal ambitions in the upcoming contest.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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