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It wants in its midst the places where the active leading young men of the south can gather in colleges and universities and there gain that higher education which prepares them to be leaders among men.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It wants in its midst the places where the active leading young men of the south can gather in colleges and universities…”
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Sherman advocates for the establishment of colleges and universities in the South to cultivate future leaders.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
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.
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