This state is ours unless the people are discouraged from voting in the country by the belief that with Tammany to count, it matters not what majority rolls up above the Highlands.
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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Then the discovery of gold, immediately following the conquest of California, drew to it, from all parts of the United States, the most restless and adventurous of our population, some of the worst and many of the best.
I felt a sense of insignificance when I realized the long life of some of these trees, estimated to span forty generations of men, and still in health and strength.
This turned the tables on my native state, and I was compelled to confess that bad men came from Ohio as well as from other states; but, if so, Ohio people excelled in the atrocity of their crimes as well as in the excellence of their…
Whatever opinion we may have of the religious creed and dogmas of the Mormons, we cannot deny the industry and courage of that sect in building up a city in a wilderness where natural conditions seemed to forbid all hope of success in such…
Washburn, and feel quite sure that in grandeur and in extent of view the American mountains are superior to those named in Europe, but the larger population in easy reach of the mountains of Switzerland will give them the preference for a…
I hope some President of the United States will be bold enough to adopt, as he can, this simple measure of relief practiced by the President of the French Republic.
My idea of Great Britain is based, not upon flying visits, but upon my study of English history and literature.
The political institutions of Great Britain are rapidly approaching our own.
While progressive, the people of that country are also conservative, but with each successive decade they extend the power of the House of Commons so that already in some respects it represents better the public sentiment than the Congress…
It responds quickly to a change of popular opinion.
The functions of the crown are now more limited than those of our President, while the House of Commons can at any moment put an end to the ministry, and if necessary a new House of Commons can be convened within a brief period, and a new…
All the governments of Europe are following in the same path, so that we may fairly hope that in a brief time Europe will become republican in substance if not in form.
The joys of home and the pleasures of foreign lands were dilated upon, and the Senator said: 'No American can travel anywhere without having a stronger love and affection for his native land.
This is the feeling of every American, and it is sometimes too strongly and noisily expressed to be acceptable abroad.
Everywhere in these old countries the spirit of nationalism is growing stronger and stronger.
The institutions of Great Britain have become liberalized until it is a monarchy only in name, the queen exercising far less power than the President of the United States.
The popularity of Americans in Europe was mentioned, and it was said of them that while abroad they were not partisans, but patriots; they believed that any party at home was better than all parties in foreign lands.
The Republican party, having saved the Union should be the governing party, and it should be heartily supported by all true patriots.
In my view the choice is as plain as the sunlight of heaven in favor of the Republican party.
While you believed in the genuineness of Campbell's signature you were entirely right in exposing him and the signers of the paper, for if it was genuine it was a corrupt and illegal transaction.
But now, since it is shown to be a forgery, a crime of the greatest character, it seems to me you ought at once to exercise your well-known energy and independence in exposing and denouncing, with equal severity, the man or men who forged…
No delicacy or pity ought to shield them from the consequences of a crime infinitely greater than the signing of such a paper would have been.
If my name was forged to it I will consider it my duty to prosecute all men who took that liberty.
Henry Clay, as early as 1818, when proposing to acknowledge the independence of the South American states, eloquently depicted the mutual advantage of closer commercial relations with those states.
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