I then believed, and now believe, that a moderate income tax, levied on all incomes above the sum of $1,000, or above a sum that will supply the ordinary wants of an average family in the United States with the necessaries of life, should be levied, according to the exigencies of the public service.
Sherman advocates for a moderate income tax to support the needs of families in the U.S.
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Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
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