Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance and Currency Addressed to the President of the Confederate States (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Is, it plot apparen' that a system ofipaper money, made a resting upouthe'publiq credit as a basis; and regulajcldflby a' j tem of funding and taxation'5'may be made more stable. And uni than the systen_1 of banking and currency as regulated by_ England 15 And this, I affirm, is the questiuin involving no-less our interests and Welfare than the question of our political independence. We bave'no alternativeewe must adopt a'system of finance which can be regulated by our go'nfgré'ss, or'the values of 'our credit, of our currency, and of owr'prox perty,' will be regulated by thebank of'vengland,~and the Pcombinatio'niof' moinied'inen of Whom that bank is but th'e'agent.

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