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The revenue act of March 3, 1857, which it is now proposed to repeal, has proved to be a crude, ill-advised, and ill-digested measure.
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Sherman critiques the revenue act of 1857, labeling it poorly conceived and executed.
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Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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