John Sherman: “The one distinctive, striking feature of the law of 1890 is, that the United States will not pay for silver bullion more…”

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.

Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.