Of the multitude of schemes that have been presented to me by intelligent men trying to solve this problem, many could have been selected that in my opinion would be practicable; but of all of them not one ever has or is likely to secure the assent of a majority of a body so numerous as Congress.
Sherman reflects on the numerous proposals he has received regarding currency resumption, noting the difficulty of achieving consensus in Congress.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
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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