There is another obligation which we, as Republicans, cannot ignore without being false to our party pledges, and that is to use every legal means to secure all citizens their constitutional rights and privileges as such, without respect to race and color.
Sherman asserts the Republican party's commitment to securing constitutional rights for all citizens, regardless of race.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
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