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To wish otherwise is to hope for war, danger, and national peril, calamities to which our nation, like others, may be subject, but against which the earnest aspiration of every patriot will be uttered.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “To wish otherwise is to hope for war, danger, and national peril, calamities to which our nation, like others, may be…”
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Sherman warns against wishing for a return to financial instability, emphasizing the need for national stability.
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