On the record
No question before the Senate of the United States at this session is at all to be compared with it in the importance of its effects upon the business interests of the country.
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Sherman asserts that no other question in the Senate is as impactful as the free coinage of silver.
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It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
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.
I have participated in framing many tariff bills, but have never succeeded in securing one that I entirely approved.
Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
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