All these objections might be met except the one which I think is unanswerable, that my presence here in the completion of a public duty is far more important to the whole country and the cause we advocate than if I were to run as a candidate for Governor of Ohio and even succeed with a large majority.
Sherman emphasizes the importance of fulfilling his current public duties over pursuing a political nomination.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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