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... operation . During nearly forty years of our existence as a nation we had a National Bank acting as the fiscal agent of Government , exercising a controlling influence over the general currency of the country , and maintaining , at all ...
... operation . During nearly forty years of our existence as a nation we had a National Bank acting as the fiscal agent of Government , exercising a controlling influence over the general currency of the country , and maintaining , at all ...
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... operation , had come to the same conclusion . An attempt at a still better currency , therefore , became necessary ; and as one extreme is sure to beget another , the specie Sub - Treasury system became the next experiment . The idea ...
... operation , had come to the same conclusion . An attempt at a still better currency , therefore , became necessary ; and as one extreme is sure to beget another , the specie Sub - Treasury system became the next experiment . The idea ...
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... operation of a protective tariff , and essential to the interests of commerce . But the principle of protection is what we contend for - it is identified with all interests , and with the prosperity of the whole country , and is ...
... operation of a protective tariff , and essential to the interests of commerce . But the principle of protection is what we contend for - it is identified with all interests , and with the prosperity of the whole country , and is ...
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... operation , Alexander Hamilton , the first Secretary of the Treasury , added to the domestic debt the claims held by several States against the national exchequer , to the amount of twenty - one million five hundred thousand dollars ...
... operation , Alexander Hamilton , the first Secretary of the Treasury , added to the domestic debt the claims held by several States against the national exchequer , to the amount of twenty - one million five hundred thousand dollars ...
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... operations incident to a state of war , with one of the most formidable nations on earth - we , from neces- sity , embraced the expedient of emitting paper money on the faith of the United States ; an expedient which had often been ...
... operations incident to a state of war , with one of the most formidable nations on earth - we , from neces- sity , embraced the expedient of emitting paper money on the faith of the United States ; an expedient which had often been ...
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Página 329 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 577 - Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy ; comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping : As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them — A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials — Duties of Servants — &c.
Página 329 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 329 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent...
Página 149 - When our manufactures are grown to a certain perfection, as they soon will under the fostering care of Government, we will no longer experience these evils. The farmer will find a ready market for his surplus produce ; and, what is almost of equal consequence, a certain and cheap supply of all his wants.
Página 286 - States is rapidly rising. The territory which they comprise, and which is to become tributary to the canal, embraces that great area, extending from the lakes on the north to the Ohio on the south, and from the western confines of this State to the upper Mississippi, containing 280,000 square miles.
Página 56 - Those of cotton will bear some comparison with the same kinds of manufacture in Europe ; but those of wool, flax and hemp are very coarse, unsightly, and unpleasant ; and such is our attachment to agriculture. and such our preference for foreign manufactures, that be it wise or unwise, our people will certainly return as soon as they can, to the raising raw materials, and exchanging them for finer manufactures than they are able to execute themselves.
Página 327 - You should by no means consider yourselves as members of a small neighborhood, town or colony only, but as being concerned in laying the foundations of American greatness. Your wishes, your designs, your labors, are not to be confined by the narrow bounds of the present age, but are to comprehend succeeding generations, and be pointed to immortality.
Página 26 - Apprised of these consequences, knowing the value of national character, and impressed with a due sense of the immutable laws of justice and honor, it is impossible that. America should think without horror of such an execrable deed.
Página 266 - A repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills," - which is duly printed, published, and sold; and whereof I brought away from Lowell four hundred good solid pages, which I have read from beginning to end.