A country that does not rest her industry upon specie is necessarily excluded from the great manufacturing industries of modern civilization, and is self-condemned to produce only the raw basis for advanced industry.
Sherman warns that without a specie standard, a country limits itself to producing only raw materials.
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God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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