If Senators will read this bill they will find that it confers on the Secretary of the Treasury greater powers than have ever been conferred, since the foundation of this government, upon any Secretary of the Treasury.
Sherman warns that the bill grants unprecedented powers to the Secretary of the Treasury, which could have significant implications.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
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.
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