John Sherman: “Why attempt it, unless to invite new contests, to again arouse sectional animosities?”

What I have written is no doubt clouded with partisanship, but I would not be honest if I did not express my attachment to my party.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.

Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.

The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.