In Germany, France and Italy they are now producing more sugar from beets than is produced in all the world from sugar cane.
John Sherman
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John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He also served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. Sherman sought the Republican presidential nomination three times, coming closest in 1888, but was never chosen by the party. Between 1861 and 1897, John Sherman served in the U.S. Senate for nearly 32 years and holds the record for longest serving senator from the state of Ohio.
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With large cities growing up around us the farmer becomes a gardener, a demand is created for dairy products, for potatoes, and numerous articles of food which yield a greater profit.
If the population of Mexico and Canada were homogenous with ours, the union of the three countries would make the whole the most powerful nation in the world.
If they had free commercial intercourse with the United States, their farms, forests, and mines would become more valuable, but at the expense of the manufactures.
The deep waters of Puget Sound will always offer to the industrious population of Washington ample and cheap means of transportation to the outside market, and I predict a great future for the state.
The construction of this railroad through the mountains is a marvel of engineering skill and well illustrates what the persistence and industry of man can accomplish.
Now, my countrymen, again thanking you for this expression, I tell you with all frankness that I think more of your unanimous praise this day uttered than I do of the office of President of United States.
I believe that is a true rule, and it ought to be exercised to promote harmony and good will and friendship among Republicans.
I do not desire the nomination, nor shall I encourage anyone to secure it for me until Ohio Republicans, who have conferred upon me the honors I have enjoyed, shall, with substantial unanimity, express their wish for my nomination.
I can find some excuse for these atrocities in the strong prejudice of caste and race in the south, growing out of centuries of slavery, but I can find no excuse for any man of any party in the north, who is willing to submit to have his…
I cannot see any reason why the Confederate cause, which was 'eternally wrong,' but bravely and honestly fought out, should be loaded down with the infamy of crimes which required no courage, committed long since the war, by politicians…
Is there no hope of persuasion of the southern people at large to see the justice of the demand for equal political rights?
It may be that the speech was impolitic, but, as I have not usually governed my speeches and conduct by the rule of policy, as distinguished from the rule of right, I do not care to commence now.
I meant my Springfield speech to be an historical statement of the position of the two parties and their tendencies and aims in the past and for the future.
They were like husband and wife; they must settle their quarrels between them, but the law, if practicable, should provide a mode of adjustment.
I claimed that the Republican party was the natural home of workingmen, that its policy, as developed for thirty years, had advanced our industrial interests and diversified the employments of the people.
In this region, workingmen, whether farmers, mechanics or laborers, would always possess political power as the controlling majority of the voters.
They had the same right to become lawyers, doctors, soldiers and heroes as the white man had.
He said the best way to overcome all prejudice was by elevating themselves; but not by gaudy extravagance, groans, abuse, war, or tumult of war.
Their rights were secured to them by the constitution of the United States, and the time would come when they would enjoy them as freely as anyone.
What the race wanted was not more rights but more education.
He had not voted for it because they were negroes, but he had voted for it because they were men and women.
He told his hearers, also, that the war is over, and that the interests of Tennessee and other southern states must naturally draw them to the Republican party.
He spoke for high protection, for internal improvements, for liberal expenditures on public buildings, for the Blair education bill, for the maintenance of the present currency system, and for spending the surplus revenue for public…
We make this appeal in the same words to the Confederate gray as to the Union blue--to whoever in our great country is willing in the future to lend a helping hand or vote to advance the honor, grandeur and prosperity of this great…
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