John Sherman: “Let Congress do now what it proposed to do last year, offer to the people a three per cent. bond.”

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.

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

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.