This right might properly have been suspended during the war, but its repeal was a fatal act, the source and cause of all the financial evils we have suffered and from which we cannot recover until we restore that right or redeem on demand our notes in coin.
Sherman identifies the repeal of a certain right as a critical factor in financial troubles.
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