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Where is the spirit of our fathers that urged them to battle and to victory?
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Where is the spirit of our fathers that urged them to battle and to victory?”
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Sherman reflects on the patriotic spirit of the founding fathers and its relevance to contemporary society.
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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.
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.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
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