John Sherman: “This tramp taught me a lesson I never forgot,--not to insist upon anything I knew nothing about.”

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.

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

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.

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