John Sherman belongs to the whole country, and it is no reflection upon the usefulness of any other public man to say that his retirement to private life would be the greatest strictly personal loss the nation could now maintain.
Sherman reflects on his national significance and the impact of his potential retirement from public life.
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The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
It is impossible for an American to visit Paris without enjoyment and instruction.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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.
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