John Sherman: “And this generation may fairly claim that it has strengthened the work…”

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And this generation may fairly claim that it has strengthened the work of the fathers, has made freedom universal, and disunion impossible.

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Sherman asserts that the current generation has built upon the foundational work of the nation's founders.

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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.

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.

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: “And this generation may fairly claim that it has strengthened the work of the fathers, has made freedom universal, and…”