Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates, the Private Papers of General Jackson, and the Speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with His Actual View of the Men and Affairs: with Historical Notes and Illustrations, and Some Notices of Eminent Deceased Contemporaries, Том 2D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... Treasury Notes X. Retention of the Fourth Deposit Instalment XI . Independent Treasury and Hard Money Pay- ments . XIL Attempted Resumption of Specie Payments XIII Bankrupt Act against Banks . 28 XXVIII . Debate between Mr. Clay and Mr ...
... Treasury Notes X. Retention of the Fourth Deposit Instalment XI . Independent Treasury and Hard Money Pay- ments . XIL Attempted Resumption of Specie Payments XIII Bankrupt Act against Banks . 28 XXVIII . Debate between Mr. Clay and Mr ...
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... Treasury Act LXV . Repeal of the Independent Treasury Act -Mr . Benton's Speech . XCL The Third Fiscal Agent , entitled a Board of Exchequer Attempted Repeal of the Bankrupt Act Death of Lewis Williams , of North Carolina , and Notice ...
... Treasury Act LXV . Repeal of the Independent Treasury Act -Mr . Benton's Speech . XCL The Third Fiscal Agent , entitled a Board of Exchequer Attempted Repeal of the Bankrupt Act Death of Lewis Williams , of North Carolina , and Notice ...
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... treasury ; and against the dangers of which I had in vain endeavored to warn our friends . A general suspension of the banks , a depreciated currency , and the in- solvency of the federal treasury , were at hand . Visible signs , and ...
... treasury ; and against the dangers of which I had in vain endeavored to warn our friends . A general suspension of the banks , a depreciated currency , and the in- solvency of the federal treasury , were at hand . Visible signs , and ...
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... treasury . me , both personal and political ( for at that time he was pressing me to become a member of his cabinet ) , would have insured me a full hearing , if I had shown a disposition to go on ; and his clear intellect would have ...
... treasury . me , both personal and political ( for at that time he was pressing me to become a member of his cabinet ) , would have insured me a full hearing , if I had shown a disposition to go on ; and his clear intellect would have ...
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... treasury order would tend very much to bring as if the population of a great city , in terror of about that better state of things . And I am of some great impending unknown calamity , had opinion , gentlemen , that the order will be re ...
... treasury order would tend very much to bring as if the population of a great city , in terror of about that better state of things . And I am of some great impending unknown calamity , had opinion , gentlemen , that the order will be re ...
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