To adopt gold alone would diminish the specie currency more than one-half; and the reduction the other way, should silver be taken as the only standard, would be large enough to prove highly disastrous to the human race.
Sherman discusses the potential disastrous effects of adopting either gold or silver as the sole standard of currency.
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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.
Proud of Ohio, of its history and people, willing at all times to sound its praise in the sisterhood of states, yet, according to my convictions, the United States is entitled to my allegiance, and all parts of it should receive equal care…
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.
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