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They would have reduced the iron and steel industries of the United States to their condition before the war, and have closed up two- thirds of the furnaces and rolling mills in this country.
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Sherman warns that the proposed changes to the iron and steel industries would have devastating effects on American manufacturing.
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If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
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Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
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