On the record
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
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Sherman asserts confidence in their position and rejects the need for apologies or concessions.
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I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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