Some discrimination in favor of the national system which affords substantial support to the government as compared with the local system, which circulates notes in competition with those issued by the government, seems to me indispensably necessary.
Sherman emphasizes the importance of a national banking system for government support.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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