If there is anything in the theory of a representation in public places of the people and their desires, if public officers are really the servants of the people, and if political promises and professions have any binding force, our failure to give the relief so long awaited will be sheer recreancy.
Sherman warns that failing to deliver on political promises would betray the trust of the people.
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Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
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