The highest policy and the greatest good to our people lie in the full trial of this effort, to establish, upon a firm foundation, the domestic production of every article essential to American life and independence.
Sherman emphasizes the importance of domestic production for American independence and prosperity.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
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