I understood him to take this position,--that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was an act of great dishonor, and that under no circumstances whatever will he--if he have the power--allow the institution of human slavery to derive any benefit from that repeal.
Sherman summarizes a position he understood regarding the Missouri Compromise and slavery.
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It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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.
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.
Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
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