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Such activity of office-holders is offensive to the great mass of the people who hold no office, and gives rise to complaints and irritation.
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Sherman points out that political activity by office-holders can alienate the public and create dissatisfaction.
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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.
The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.
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.
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