Upon two great measures of public policy the Republican and Democratic parties have made a formal and distinct issue, and these are to be submitted to the people of Ohio in November, and your decision will have a marked effect upon public opinion throughout the United States.
Sherman outlines the significant issues at stake in the upcoming election, which he believes will influence national opinion.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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.
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