John Sherman: “Is it for this that you would continue in power a party that, by a long enjoyment of the patronage of the government…”

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.

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

It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.

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.