This is the spectre that now haunts American politics, and may make it just as vital and necessary to appeal to the northern states to unite again against this evil, not so open and arrogant as slavery, but more dangerous and equally unjust.
Sherman identifies a new political threat that, while less overt than slavery, poses significant dangers to justice and equality.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
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.
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