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Such importance do I attach to this subject, and so earnestly do I commend it to your attention, that I give it prominence by introducing it at the beginning of this message.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “Such importance do I attach to this subject, and so earnestly do I commend it to your attention, that I give it…”
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Grant emphasizes the significance of the banking issue by prioritizing it in his address to Congress.
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