The gross injustice to me personally, and the irritating language of southern Members in the speakership contest, aroused my resentment, so that in the campaign of 1860 I was ready to meet the threats of secession with those of open war.
Sherman reflects on his personal feelings of resentment during the 1860 campaign, ready to confront secession with military action.
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Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
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.
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.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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