John Sherman

Sherman represents the principles of the Republican party from its beginning.

He established a financial reputation not second to that of any man in our history.

Sherman was the principal advocate of the resumption bill in the Senate, and during the two critical years preceding the day for coin payment he was at the head of the treasury department.

It seldom happens that the promoter of a policy in Congress has an opportunity to carry it out in an executive department.

The condition upon which alone I would become a candidate for so exalted a position as President of the United States had been complied with, and I therefore felt that I might fairly aspire to the nomination.

These intensify not only the propriety, but the absolute necessity, of both a commercial and a political union between Canada and the United States.

So that all the considerations that entered into the acquisition of Florida, Louisiana, and the Pacific coast and Texas, apply to Canada, greatly strengthened by the changed condition of commercial relations and matters of transportation.

It would have been better for all, for the mother country as well, if all this continent north of Mexico had participated in the formation, and shared in common the blessings and prosperity of the American Union.

Our whole history, since the conquest of Canada by Great Britain in 1763, has been a continuous warning that we cannot be at peace with each other except by a political as well as commercial union.

And now I submit if the time has not come when the people of the United States and Canada should take a broader view of their relations to each other than has heretofore seemed practicable.

We admitted fish free of duty into our country, while Canada refused to our fishermen the right to purchase bait and other supplies in Canadian ports, thus preventing our fishermen from competing with the Canadians on the open sea.

I agreed with the President in his arraignment of the Canadian authorities for denying to our fishing vessels the benefit of the enlightened measures adopted in later years by commercial nations, especially by the United States and Great…

What untold sums have been lost by his failure to comply with that law.

Of all the financial management that I have read or know of, the worst is that by the present administration.

It is one of the obligations of honor and duty which, I trust, will be discharged by the United States before many years.

I did, at Nashville, speak hopefully, and I feel hopefully, of the future, but it is only upon the basis of the recognized rights of every American citizen.

I did denounce the course of the Democratic party north and south, during and since the war, especially in regard to the reconstruction measures.

I have not the slightest feeling of hostility against the south, and no desire in regard to it, except to preserve and protect the rights of all the people of the south.

If I could repeat it over, I would add emphasis to give force and effect to it, and so I feel about the south.

Every word I uttered on that night I utter now.

I have been in favor of the exclusion of Chinese laborers when practically they are slaves, but have sought to moderate the legislation proposed, so as not to disturb our friendly relations with China, or to exclude educated Chinamen…

I ventured, in a mild-mannered way, to suggest to him a doubt whether trusts were caused by the tariff, whether they did not exist as to domestic as well as to foreign productions.

This substitute was a careful and elaborate protective tariff bill, containing some provisions I did not approve, but, in its general provisions, was, in my opinion, a far better bill than the Mills bill.

We will select those taxes that bear most heavily upon the people, especially internal taxes, and repeal those.

The real controversy raised by the President's message was not whether taxes should be reduced, but what taxes should be reduced or abolished.