While this investigation imposed a severe labor upon the committee on appropriations, it had a beneficial effect in securing a more careful control over the contingent expenses of the departments, and it silenced the imputations and innuendoes aimed at me.
Sherman notes that the investigation led to improved financial oversight and helped dispel rumors against him.
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Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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