This strange turn in events has but one example in history, and that was the restoration of Charles II, after the brilliant but brief Protectorate of Cromwell, and, like that restoration, is a reproach to the civilization of the age.
Sherman draws a historical parallel between the political restoration of former Confederates and the restoration of Charles II, suggesting a troubling precedent.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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