The reason was that 'Westward the star of empire wends its way.' But latterly the star of empire seems to have settled about this city of New York, until more than 200 Ohio men can sit down to an Ohio feast in the city of New York.
Sherman reflects on the migration patterns of Ohioans towards the West and their current presence in New York.
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You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
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