John Sherman: “I was somewhat tempted to enter the service, though I did not believe in the justice of the war.”

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.

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.

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

Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states.