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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... means of acting on the fears and sus- picions of the timid and credulous : and it gave to the country a season of repose and quiet from this disturbing question until a new point of agitation could be discovered and seized . The cabinet ...
... means of acting on the fears and sus- picions of the timid and credulous : and it gave to the country a season of repose and quiet from this disturbing question until a new point of agitation could be discovered and seized . The cabinet ...
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... means of retaining fact of the ruin of the country and the attribu- them were exhausted - and that a complete tion of that ruin to the specie circular . No blight has fallen upon a community heretofore such voice was lifted — no such ...
... means of retaining fact of the ruin of the country and the attribu- them were exhausted - and that a complete tion of that ruin to the specie circular . No blight has fallen upon a community heretofore such voice was lifted — no such ...
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... means known to a moneyed power - by operating on the interests of men , seducing some , alarming and distressing ACTUAL SUSPENSION OF THE BANKS : PROPAGA- the masses . They are the key to the manner of conducting the presidential ...
... means known to a moneyed power - by operating on the interests of men , seducing some , alarming and distressing ACTUAL SUSPENSION OF THE BANKS : PROPAGA- the masses . They are the key to the manner of conducting the presidential ...
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... means of small gains ; by many , politically , as a means of exciting odium against the administration for having destroyed the currency . Fictitious and burlesque notes were issued with caricatures and grotesque pic- tures and devices ...
... means of small gains ; by many , politically , as a means of exciting odium against the administration for having destroyed the currency . Fictitious and burlesque notes were issued with caricatures and grotesque pic- tures and devices ...
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... means of borrowing money , and especially from small capitalists ; and , therefore , preferable to a direct loan . It was opposed as a paper money bill in disguise , as germinating a new national debt , and as the easy mode of raising ...
... means of borrowing money , and especially from small capitalists ; and , therefore , preferable to a direct loan . It was opposed as a paper money bill in disguise , as germinating a new national debt , and as the easy mode of raising ...
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