To adopt gold alone would diminish the specie currency more than one-half; and the reduction the other way, should silver be taken as the only standard, would be large enough to prove highly disastrous to the human race.
Sherman discusses the potential disastrous effects of adopting either gold or silver as the sole standard of currency.
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