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If the fight must be for the possession of gold, we will use our cotton and our corn, our wheat and other productions, against all the productions of mankind.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “If the fight must be for the possession of gold, we will use our cotton and our corn, our wheat and other productions…”
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Sherman asserts that if a struggle for gold ensues, the U.S. will leverage its agricultural resources.
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