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Here again the opportunity was lost to secure the easy and natural appreciation of our notes to the gold standard.
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Sherman laments the missed opportunity to align currency with the gold standard after the war.
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It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
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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