On the one hand, the Democratic party believe in a tariff for revenue only, sometimes, as they say, with incidental protection, but what they mean is a tariff intended solely to raise money to carry on the operations of the government.
Sherman discusses the Democratic party's stance on tariffs, highlighting their focus on revenue generation.
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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.
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.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
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