John Sherman: “They now appeal to us for help against an invasion more unjustifiable and barbarous.”

The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.

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.

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.