If successfully accomplished, it will secure a large decrease in the annual interest payment of the nation; and I earnestly recommend, if the bill before me shall fail, that another measure for this purpose be adopted before the present Congress adjourns.
Sherman advocates for a new measure to reduce the nation's annual interest payments if the current bill fails.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
Let us, my friends, unite in electing him President of the United States.
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.
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
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