John Sherman: “Never before did a flourishing and prosperous state make such gigantic…”

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Never before did a flourishing and prosperous state make such gigantic strides towards effecting its own ruin.

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Ohio

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Sherman comments on the paradox of a prosperous state moving towards self-destruction through poor financial decisions.

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Canada and Mexico as independent republics will be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states.

Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.

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.

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

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John Sherman: “Never before did a flourishing and prosperous state make such gigantic strides towards effecting its own ruin.”