John Sherman: “I answered that I would not, that the great issue was the extension of slavery over the territories.”

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.

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.

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.