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And now, fellow-citizens, this brings me to the question upon which there is so much diversity of opinion, so many strange delusions, and that is the question of specie payments.
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Sherman addresses the contentious issue of specie payments in his speech to citizens.
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The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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I wrote an adverse report, but it was suppressed in the committee.
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