Perspective: The story of how dreams of being speaker can get crushed — and why McCarthy has some things working in his favor
Just ask John Sherman, an Ohio congressman, who fell victim to sectional politics on the eve of the Civil War and lost his bid for House speaker.Sherman may be the most important American statesman you’ve never heard of. He’s the Sherman behind two famous bills: the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act .
But Helper really ignited passions when he called on small-landowners and non-enslaving White people to rise up and overthrow their landed oppressors. In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid, powerful Southerners saw this call as a true danger to slavery’s continued viability.was to fiction.
While slavery had emerged as a dividing line between Republicans and Democrats, Republicans were still an upstart party. They were little more than a few years old, and party members, while all technically anti-slavery, possessed a range of opinions on not just slavery but on how best to confront proslavery Democrats.
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