John Sherman: “The majority, with great unfairness, instead of frankly stating that they were deceived by a forgery, treated it as a…”

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 Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.

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.

Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.