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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What I have written is no doubt clouded with partisanship, but I would not be honest if I did not express my attachment to my party.
During forty years of public life, though many able men have aspired to the office I hold, the people of Ohio, through their general assembly, have preferred me to represent them.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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