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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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Sherman warns against wishing for a return to financial instability, emphasizing the need for national stability.
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I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
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