John Sherman: “It affects every man, woman and child in our broad land, the rich with his investments, the poor with his labor.”

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.

The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.

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

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