On the record
Why not, by terminating their territorial condition, determine this controversy?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sherman questions why ending the territorial status wouldn't resolve the slavery controversy.
Share
More from John Sherman
It is impossible for an American to visit Paris without enjoyment and instruction.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
Other voices in this conversation
