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Now, nearly thirty years after the passage of this act, it is manifest that it was far the most injurious and expensive financial measure ever enacted by Congress.
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Sherman critiques a past financial act, highlighting its detrimental effects nearly thirty years later.
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They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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.
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