I explained to him that this amendment would never have been adopted but for the action of the south in depriving the enfranchised voter, not only of his rights of citizenship, but of the ordinary rights of humanity.
Sherman explains the historical context of the 15th amendment and its necessity due to southern actions.
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The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
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