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Yet it is proposed to recall our promise to redeem this note in coin three years hence.
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Sherman warns against the proposal to delay the redemption of notes, emphasizing the importance of honoring commitments.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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 was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
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