To ask more seems to me unreasonable, and, if yielded to, will bring all our money to the single silver standard alone, demonetize gold and detach the United States from the standards of the great commercial nations of the world.
Sherman critiques the unreasonable demands for a single silver standard, emphasizing the need for a balanced monetary system.
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The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
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.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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