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The problem we have to solve is how to secure to our people the largest use of both gold and silver without demonetizing either.
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Sherman identifies the challenge of maximizing the use of both gold and silver without demonetizing either.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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