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This was a privilege that no nation could safely surrender to individuals or banks.
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Sherman warns against surrendering the power to issue currency to private entities, advocating for government control.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
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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