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It led our country in the great struggle for union and nationality, which more than all else tended to make it great and powerful.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It led our country in the great struggle for union and nationality, which more than all else tended to make it great and…”
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Sherman highlights the Republican party's role in promoting national unity and strength.
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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.
Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
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