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It should denounce and condemn the attempt to establish the free coinage of silver by the power of the United States alone, and declare that to be practical repudiation and national ruin.
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Hoar warns against the dangers of free silver coinage, labeling it as a path to national ruin.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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