John Sherman: “The administration intends to stand or fall by the Union, the entire Union, and the enforcement of the laws.”

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.

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.

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