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The political effects of the legal-tender bill were of large consequence to the Administration and to the successful conduct of the war.
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This quote highlights the significant political implications of the legal-tender bill during the Civil War.
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With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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