He admits that the constitution is the supreme law; that neither a state nor the citizens of a state can disregard it; and yet, armed as he is with all the executive power, he refuses even to protect the property of the United States against armed violence.
Sherman discusses the President's refusal to protect federal property despite recognizing constitutional authority.
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Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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