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Must this government submit to insult and indignity?
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Must this government submit to insult and indignity?”
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Sherman questions whether the government should tolerate insults and indignities from secessionist forces.
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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.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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