I assure you I will heartily sustain and approve any recommendation you may make that appears to me to tend to make the New York customhouse--not only what it now is, the most important, but what it ought to be-- the best managed business agency of the government.
Sherman expresses his commitment to supporting improvements in the management of the New York customhouse.
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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.
The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.
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.
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