On the record
From the first issue of the legal tender note, which I heartily supported and voted for, I have sought to make it good, to support, maintain and advance its value.
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Sherman reflects on his commitment to supporting the value of legal tender notes since their inception.
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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.
Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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