John Sherman: “They were like husband and wife; they must settle their quarrels…”

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They were like husband and wife; they must settle their quarrels between them, but the law, if practicable, should provide a mode of adjustment.

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Ohio

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Sherman uses a metaphor to describe the relationship between capital and labor.

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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.

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.

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John Sherman: “They were like husband and wife; they must settle their quarrels between them, but the law, if practicable, should…”