Faran to come to my home at Mansfield, and I will show him all I possess there, and render him a full account of all I have elsewhere, and if I can't fairly account for it without being suspected of receiving bribes, or gifts, or stealing, then he can repeat these baseless accusations with an easy conscience.
Sherman invites a critic to his home to transparently account for his wealth and dispel accusations of wrongdoing.
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But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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.
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