Some employees were incapacitated by age, some by ignorance, some by carelessness and indifference; and parties thus unfitted have been appointed, not to perform routine duties distinctly marked, but to exercise a discretion in questions demanding intelligence and integrity, and involving a large amount of revenue.
Sherman highlights the various reasons for employee incapacity, stressing the need for qualified personnel in critical roles.
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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.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
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.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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