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I think it is our highest duty to investigate, to examine and analyze the mode in which the executive powers of this government have been administered for a few years past.
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Sherman emphasizes the importance of investigating the executive powers of the government.
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The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible.
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.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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