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A fair election would have given us about forty electoral votes at the south--at least that many.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “A fair election would have given us about forty electoral votes at the south--at least that many.”
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Sherman argues that a fair election could have significantly changed the political landscape in the South.
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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.
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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