Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to Amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania, December 22, 1837. In Support of an Amendment to Prohibit Banks from Issuing Notes of a Less Denomination Than Ten Dollars, as Offered by Mr. Read of SusquehannaJ. Wilbank, 1838 - 15 páginas |
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... currency like that of France ; nearly all gold and silver ---- a currency which has stood the test of two con quests and one revolution . " ---- English Paper . Hon . C. J. Ingersoll in his able report upor Banks and Banking , to the ...
... currency like that of France ; nearly all gold and silver ---- a currency which has stood the test of two con quests and one revolution . " ---- English Paper . Hon . C. J. Ingersoll in his able report upor Banks and Banking , to the ...
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... currency , although much abridged of what it might and perhaps ought to be , renders it indispensable that the notice of cor- porations should be brief and summary . They are kin- dred subjects , and as far as the power of legislation ...
... currency , although much abridged of what it might and perhaps ought to be , renders it indispensable that the notice of cor- porations should be brief and summary . They are kin- dred subjects , and as far as the power of legislation ...
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... currency , because it has wisely been left to the natur- al laws of trade . " If the wants of the community require a banking institution , capable of regulating the currency and exchanges , set trade free , and it will supply such an ...
... currency , because it has wisely been left to the natur- al laws of trade . " If the wants of the community require a banking institution , capable of regulating the currency and exchanges , set trade free , and it will supply such an ...
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... currency , by destroying its conver- tibility , and in this stage we now find our- selves . " * How long will it be before the people of this country are as monopoly ridden as those of Great Britain ? If the coal speculators , flour ...
... currency , by destroying its conver- tibility , and in this stage we now find our- selves . " * How long will it be before the people of this country are as monopoly ridden as those of Great Britain ? If the coal speculators , flour ...
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... a cigar into a shoe and call it a steam boat . The banks make real money scarce , by locking it up in their vaults and shipping it out of the country . The longer an irredeemable paper currency is permitted to continue 29.
... a cigar into a shoe and call it a steam boat . The banks make real money scarce , by locking it up in their vaults and shipping it out of the country . The longer an irredeemable paper currency is permitted to continue 29.
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 9 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 113 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Página 80 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 41 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 2 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 40 - And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Página 10 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind; Thy tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind...
Página 7 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings —yet the dead are there...
Página 23 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator...
Página 6 - ... of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the states respectively, on entering into the constitutional compact, which formed the union and as such are a manifest breach of faith, and a violation of the most solemn obligations, moral and religious.