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The resources, wealth, and labor of twenty millions of freemen are amply sufficient to meet not only the physical, but financial, difficulties of the war.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman asserts that the resources of the nation are sufficient to overcome the challenges posed by the war.

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