John Sherman: “Must it surrender its property, its flag, its nationality?”

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.

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.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.

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