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Our credit is unrivaled in all the world, for no nation can borrow money at so low a rate as our United States bonds now bear.
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Sherman emphasizes the unmatched creditworthiness of the United States in the global financial market.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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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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