This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...wealth, while many deserving persons of moderate fortunes, sunk at once to poverty. That the bills should have depreciated, will not be mysterious, when we consider that the immense sum of one hundred and sixty millions had now been issued by Congress. The honest individual of private life, will be surprised ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...wealth, while many deserving persons of moderate fortunes, sunk at once to poverty. That the bills should have depreciated, will not be mysterious, when we consider that the immense sum of one hundred and sixty millions had now been issued by Congress. The honest individual of private life, will be surprised to learn another reason of the depreciation of American paper, although the wily politician knows that it is no new "trick of state." England on this occasion turned counterfeiter. Her ministers sent over, and her generals distributed whole chests of spurious bills so perfectly imitated as scarcely to be distinguished from the true. Intrigues In the mean-time America was scarcely less in danger from and: SIwin. ner friends tnan ner enemies. Her Congress was beset by the intrigues of France and Spain. The former had not intended to declare in her favour, until far greater concessions had been obtained. She had been surprised into the step she had taken, by the unexpected fortune which in the case of Burgoyne, the Americans had single-handed won for themselves, and which made her fear that unless she then declared herself, the contest would be decided, and America independent without being in any degree indebted to her or inclined to favour her. She also feared that she should lose the opportunity of obtaining a powerful and efficient ally in a war which she wished on her own account, to wage against her too powerful neighbour, and hereditary enemy. Now that by the alliance, these objects were secured, she wished in the particulars which yet remained to be settled, to drive a hard bargain for her services; and to make the Americans think meanly of themselves, would be to enhance the value of those services. M. Gerard in his...
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