John Sherman: “Why not, by terminating their territorial condition, determine this controversy?”

The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.

Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.

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.

It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.