I felt that, as Secretary of the Treasury, I had rendered the country valuable service, that I had dealt with vast sums without receiving the slightest benefit, and at the close was humiliated by charges of petty larceny.
Sherman reflects on his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury and the challenges he faced during that time.
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The worst evil that could befall our country is civil war, but the outrages in Kansas cannot be continued much longer without producing it.
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.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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.
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