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" We have suffered more from this cause," he says, " than from every other cause of calamity: it has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted the choicest interests of our country more, and done more injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemies... "
The Edinburgh Encyclopædia Conducted by David Brewster, with the Assistance ... - Page 387
1832
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A Short History of Paper-money and Banking in the United States: Including ...

William M. Gouge - 1833 - 414 pages
...consequent irregularities of the financial system. " We have suffered more from this cause" he says, " than from every other cause of calamity : it has killed...than even the arms and artifices of our enemies."* " While we rejoice in the riches and strength of our country, we have reason to lament with tears of...
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Oration Delivered Before the Democratic Citizens of the County of Worcester ...

Robert Rantoul - 1837 - 76 pages
...testifies were less than those of continental money. "We have suffered more from this cause" he says, "than from every other cause of calamity : it has...than even the arms, and artifices of our enemies." "While we rejoice in the riches and strength of our country, we have reason to lament with tears of...
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The Journal of Banking, from July 1841 to July 1842 ...: To which is Annexed ...

1842 - 422 pages
...consequent irregularities of the financial system. " We have suffered more from this cause," he says, " than from every other cause of calamity: it has killed...than even the arms and artifices of our enemies."* " While we rejoice in the riches and strength of our country, we have reason to lament with tears of...
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The Fiscal History of Texas: Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts ...

William M. Gouge - 1852 - 376 pages
...continental money, an eye-witness of its effects says: — " We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause of calamity. It has killed...injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemies. * * * * " It has polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into engines of oppression and wrong;...
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Memoirs, Speeches and Writings of Robert Rantoul, Jr

Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 892 pages
...testifies were less than those of continental money. " We have suffered more from this cause," he says, " than from every other cause of calamity : it has killed...than even the arms and artifices of our enemies." " While we rejoice in the riches and strength of our country, we have reason to lament with tears of...
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A History of American Currency

William Graham Sumner - 1874 - 416 pages
...Webster says of the paper : " We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause or calamity. It has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted...injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemy." The enemy, perceiving the terrible harm the Americans were doing themselves, thought it well...
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A History of American Currency: With Chapters on the English Bank ...

William Graham Sumner - 1874 - 400 pages
...Webster says of the paper : " We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause or calamity. It has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted...injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemy." The enemy, perceiving the terrible harm the Americans were doing themselves, thought it well...
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The North American Review, Volume 119

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1874 - 520 pages
...this paper, now treasured in many a cabinet among the patriotic mementos of the Revolution, that " it has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted the...injustice, than even the arms and artifices of our enemy." To hint that the bloodstained greenback, which also has served its purpose and is nilfilling...
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Money and the Mechanism of Exchange

William Stanley Jevons - 1875 - 396 pages
...forgotten. Of paper money he says, " We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause or calamity. It has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted...injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemy." The issue of an inconvertible money, as Professor Sumner remarks, has often been recommended...
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Money and the Mechanism of Exchange

William Stanley Jevons - 1875 - 376 pages
...forgotten. Of paper money he says, "We have suffered more from this cause than from every other cause or calamity. It has killed more men, pervaded and corrupted...injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemy." The issue of an inconvertible money, as Professor Sumner remarks, has often been recommended...
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