With the wide diversity of opinion that prevails, each of us must make concessions in order to secure such a measure as will accomplish the objects sought for without impairing the public credit or the general interests of our people.
Sherman calls for compromise among differing opinions to achieve a beneficial legislative outcome.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
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