The plan proposed by me was to set aside a portion of the surplus revenue or sinking fund of each year applicable to the payment of the public debt, for the purchase of silver bullion to be coined into silver dollars of the old standard.
Sherman outlined a plan to use surplus revenue for purchasing silver bullion to coin into old standard silver dollars.
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Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hope our people will be content with internal growth, and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions.
The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.
It was settled by this war that we have a country limited in its powers by the constitution of the United States fairly construed.
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