This limitation of the power of the President, and the distribution of power among the departments, is an essential requisite of a republican government, and it is one that an army officer, accustomed to give or receive orders, finds it difficult to understand and to observe when elected President.
Sherman highlights the challenges of understanding the distribution of power in a republican government.
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Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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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