The problem of the two races living together in the same community with equal political rights is a difficult one, and has come to be regarded by men of all parties as one that can only be settled by each state or community for itself.
Sherman discusses the complex issue of racial coexistence and political rights in American communities.
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But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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.
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!
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