You talk about hard times now--I have seen the time when a man was glad to get thirty-two cents for a bushel of wheat; when eggs could not be sold, when the only way to get 'York money' was to drive horses and cattle and sheep over the Alleghanies.
Sherman shares his memories of economic hardship during his early life, highlighting the struggles of farmers.
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What a pity, he said, it would have been if so great a country as the United States had been disrupted on account of slavery.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
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