Now that resumption is a success, Democrats say the Republican party did not bring it about, but that Providence has done it; that bountiful crops here and bad crops in Europe have been the cause of all the prosperity that has come since resumption.
Sherman critiques Democrats for downplaying the Republican party's role in the success of the resumption act.
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If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
Nothing is wanting but cultivation to make this a most delightful country.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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