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This power I do not think ought to be given to him.
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Sherman firmly states his opposition to granting the proposed powers to the Secretary of the Treasury.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
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