I understood him to take this position,--that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was an act of great dishonor, and that under no circumstances whatever will he--if he have the power--allow the institution of human slavery to derive any benefit from that repeal.
Sherman summarizes a position he understood regarding the Missouri Compromise and slavery.
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He took strong ground against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and in 1859 was a competitor with me for the position of speaker, but withdrew in my favor after the first ballot.
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.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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