While I did not concur in all the views stated by the President, especially as to the policy of retiring United States notes then in circulation, yet his general conclusions in favor of the coin standard were, in my view, sound and just.
Sherman acknowledges his disagreement with the President but supports the general conclusions on the coin standard.
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