The platform upon which he was elected was "That an adequate protection to American industry is indispensable to the prosperity of this country; and that an abandonment of the policy at this period would be attended with consequences ruinous to the best interest of the nation.
Sherman references the Republican party's platform advocating for protection of American industry as vital for national prosperity.
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