On the record
Every word I uttered on that night I utter now.
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Sherman reflects on the enduring truth of his words from a past speech.
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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.
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.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
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.
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