Who doubts that if there had been a law upon the statute book by which the people of the southern states could have been guided in their effort to come back into the Union, they would have cheerfully followed it, although the conditions had been hard?
Sherman argues that a guiding law would have encouraged southern states to rejoin the Union despite difficult conditions.
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