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Therefore, I thought wisely, the sub-treasury system was adopted, by which gold and silver coin was the only money received or paid out by the government.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Therefore, I thought wisely, the sub-treasury system was adopted, by which gold and silver coin was the only money…”
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Sherman explains his support for the sub-treasury system, which mandated that only gold and silver coin be used by the government.
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