John Sherman: “Gold can only be a measure or standard of value, but cannot be the current money of the 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.

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

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.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.