As a rule it is better to fix the duty upon weight or measure, rather than upon value, for by the former mode the amount is easily ascertained by the scale or yard stick, while to base the duty upon value, changing from day to day, is to invite fraud and litigation.
Sherman emphasizes the importance of basing duties on measurable quantities to prevent fraud.
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The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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