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to force capitalists, and those who have the largest share of it, to embark 

 in useful enterprises ; a currency that is calculated to expand and foster 

 the industries of the country instead of promoting isolated and sectional 

 enterprises ; a currency from which the government can derive sufficient 

 revenue to enable them to abolish every vestige of taxation from the 

 necessities and comforts of life ; a currency that will not interfere with 

 commercial transactions in this country. 



We need, in the South, perfect friendship, political and financial, with 

 every other section in this Union. This is indispensable. No nation 

 can long prosper with bickerings and strife within. But while legislation 

 and administration of law in favor of one section as against another, or 

 in favor of one class as against another, continues, peace will never 

 wreath her chain around this land of ours. " Let us have peace." 



