There is no objection in my mind to the object of this bill; that is, to provide for the exchange of the trade dollar for the standard silver dollar; the only point is whether the trade dollar shall be treated as bullion, or as a coined dollar of the United States.
Sherman expresses his support for a bill regarding the exchange of trade dollars, highlighting a key point of contention.
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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.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
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