Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech Delivered by Hon.: John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, at Mansfield, Ohio, on August 17, 1877
In the lower House you took rank seldom accorded a new member, and, in the third Congress in which you sat, were the acknowledged leader of the House. Transferred to the Senate at the outbreak of the rebellion, your associates there were quick to perceive vour capacity for great mental effort, and prompt to recognize it; and so early in your Senatorial life the chairman ship of the most important committee-that of Finance - was conceded you. But the country at large needed you - your large executive and financial ability in that most onerous and responsi ble of all its departments, the department organized by the bril liant genius of a Hamilton, and worthily filled by a long line of grand men, and forever graced by the incumbency of a Chase. We believe that the great office has never been filled more worthily, more ably, or more successfully, than by john sher man?
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