The conditions proposed would have made it an international work of great importance to all commercial nations, while ample authority was reserved on the part of the United States to protect its investment with tolls sufficient to pay the interest and refund the principal.
Sherman highlights the international significance of the proposed canal and the U.S. authority to protect its investment, reflecting on economic interests.
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The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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