This pretense for secession would not have been concurred in by any of the states north of South Carolina, but for the previous agitation of slavery, which had welded nearly all the slaveholding states into a compact confederacy.
Sherman argues that the pretense for secession was largely influenced by the agitation surrounding slavery, which united slaveholding states.
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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.
Proud of Ohio, of its history and people, willing at all times to sound its praise in the sisterhood of states, yet, according to my convictions, the United States is entitled to my allegiance, and all parts of it should receive equal care…
The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.
The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.
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