 | William M. Gouge - Banks and banking - 1833 - 414 pages
...dissolution since life was first given to the creation, this mighty monster died the least lamented. " If it saved the State, it has also polluted the equity...administration : destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had the most confidence in it ; enervated the trade, husbandry and manufactures of our... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1842 - 422 pages
...dissolution since life was first given to the creation, this mighty monster died the least lamented. " If it saved the State, it has also polluted the equity...administration ; destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had the most confidence in it ; enervated the trade, husbandry and manufactures of our... | |
 | William M. Gouge - Finance - 1852 - 370 pages
...same rock. Speaking of this same continental money, an eye-witness of its effects says: — " It has polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into...administration; destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had most confidence in it j enervated the trade, husbandry, and manufactures of our country,... | |
 | William M. Gouge - Finance - 1852 - 376 pages
...country more, and done more injustice than even the arms and artifices of our enemies. * * * * " It has polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into...administration; destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had most confidence in it ; enervated the trade, husbandry, and manufactures of our country,... | |
 | William M. Gouge - Finance - 1852 - 376 pages
...wrong; corrupted the justice of our public administration; destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had most confidence in it; enervated the trade, husbandry, and manufactures of our country, and gone far to destroy the morality of our people."* The Revolutionary Congress did scale this continental... | |
 | American essays - 1874 - 792 pages
...legal tender note, a» Pelatiah Webster wrote of the legal tender paper money of the Revolution: " If it saved the state, it has also polluted the equity...oppression and wrong; corrupted the justice of our administration; destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had the most confidence in it; enervated the... | |
 | New Haven Colony Historical Society - Connecticut - 1865 - 400 pages
...obligation by paying one shilling or sixpence in the pound.* Paper money, says honest Pelatiah Webster, " polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into...administration, destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had confidence in it, enervated the trade, husbandry and manufactures of our country, and went far to destroy... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Currency question - 1874 - 418 pages
...without giving the opportunity for private individuals to take " forced loans " from their neighbors. " If it saved the State, it has also polluted the ^~-^«-** **? equity of our laws, turned them into ejrfemies,.of oppression and wrong, corrupted the justice of our public administration, destroyed the... | |
 | william g. summer - 1874 - 416 pages
...without giving the opportunity for private individuals to take " forced loans " from their neighbors. " If it saved the State, it has also polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into enemies of oppression and wrong, corrupted the justice of our public administration, destroyed the... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 706 pages
...Revolution, vol. ii. p. 134 et uq. " It has," said Pelatiah Webster, a most trustworthy authority, " polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into...oppression and wrong; corrupted the justice of our public administrations ; destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had the most confidence in it; enervated... | |
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If it saved the State, it has also polluted the equity of our laws ; turned them into engines of oppression and wrong: corrupted the justice of our public administration : destroyed the fortunes of thousands of those who had the most confidence in it... 
