John Sherman: “Our fathers would not allow the word 'slave' or 'slavery' in the constitution, when all the states but one were…”

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 life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.

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.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.