I had, however, before my election, witnessed, with deep humiliation, the Senate debates, feeling that the Republican Senators were too timid in the steps taken to purge that body of persons whom I regarded as traitors.
Sherman expresses his disappointment with the Senate's handling of traitors during a critical time in American history.
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During forty years of public life, though many able men have aspired to the office I hold, the people of Ohio, through their general assembly, have preferred me to represent them.
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.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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.
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