It has, by a policy of fostering and protecting our home industries, so diversified our productions that every article of necessity, luxury, art or refinement can be made by American labor, and the food and fruits of a temperate climate, and cotton, wool and all the textile fibres, can be raised on the American farm.
Sherman outlines the Republican party's policy of supporting domestic industries, leading to economic diversification.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
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