The alternative is to authorize me to accept the guaranty, or leave the treasury with scarcely anything in it and with outstanding demands, some of them very pressing, of at least six millions of dollars, for you and your political friends to provide for.
Sherman presents the urgency of accepting state guarantees to prevent a financial crisis in the treasury.
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I have given my views, speaking for no other man, frankly and fearlessly, and I will stand by them now and in the future.
I believe that it will give a reasonable fair protection for the great industries of agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, which lie at the basis of the prosperity of this country.
You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
They want disunion, and not compromise or conciliation.
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