John Sherman: “Nothing is wanting but cultivation to make this a most delightful country.”

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

Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.

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.