This will strongly impress upon Congress the imperative duty of acting wisely upon financial measures, for the responsibility will then rest entirely upon Congress, and will not be shared with them by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sherman highlights the responsibility of Congress in financial matters, emphasizing that they should not share this with the Secretary of the Treasury.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
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