John Sherman: “The experience of all the world belies this statement.”

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

The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.

It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.

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.