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I feel that I cannot accept this high compliment, without acknowledging that I am but one of the many who have contributed to the accomplishment of this beneficent object.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “I feel that I cannot accept this high compliment, without acknowledging that I am but one of the many who have…”
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Sherman expresses gratitude for a compliment, recognizing the collective contributions to a significant achievement.
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But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
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