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Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community, compared with a fraudulent currency, and the robberies committed by depreciated paper.
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Sherman compares the impact of fraudulent currency to other forms of tyranny and oppression.
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