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Agriculture has furnished the great body of our exports, yet this employment had no representative in any of the departments except a clerk in the Patent Office.
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Sherman points out the lack of representation for agriculture in government despite its role in exports.
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If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
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