The note holder, the farmer, the artisan, the laborer, whose labor and production is measured in greenbacks, still receives your depreciated notes, worth ten per cent. less than gold you promised him 'at the earliest day practicable.' The one has a promise performed and the other a promise postponed.
Sherman highlights the disparity in treatment between bondholders and laborers during a financial crisis.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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