The Greenback party not only denounces all we have done, but proposes to reverse it by the issue of an almost unlimited amount of irredeemable paper money, to destroy the system of free national banks, and to call in and pay off all the United States bonds with irredeemable money.
Sherman critiques the Greenback party's proposals, arguing they would undermine the financial system established by the Republicans.
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But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
The tax on spirits, tobacco and beer ought to be retained as the best objects of taxation either of domestic or imported goods.
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