John Sherman: “The disorders of the last winter, and the fear of their renewal, have…”

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The disorders of the last winter, and the fear of their renewal, have, without doubt, induced a good many citizens to vote for the Republican ticket.

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Ohio

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Sherman suggests that public unrest influenced citizens to support the Republican Party in elections.

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

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

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.

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

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John Sherman: “The disorders of the last winter, and the fear of their renewal, have, without doubt, induced a good many citizens to…”