John Sherman: “Does it rouse no generous and noble feelings in your breasts to be a guardian shield and avenging sword to your country?”

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.

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.

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.

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