John Sherman: “Let them do what we have not been able to do since the war--restore our commerce to every port and protect it under our…”

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.

The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.

The life of a civilian is in what he says or writes, that of a soldier in what he does.

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.