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The public credit was greatly strengthened by the provision for the payment of interest in coin furnished by duties on imported goods.
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Sherman discusses how a specific provision strengthened public credit during a financial crisis.
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Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country" has been the watchword and creed of my public life.
What I have written is no doubt clouded with partisanship, but I would not be honest if I did not express my attachment to my party.
If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
The Union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others.
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