Resolved, That we hereby record the high appreciation in which the American people hold the character and services of General Sherman, as one of the greatest soldiers of his generation, as one of the grandest patriots that our country has produced, and as a noble man in the broadest and fullest meaning of the word.
Sherman reflects on the legacy of military leaders and their impact on American history.
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But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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