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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The manufacture of American salt in case of war. (search)
late its sale, doing what in a normal situation would have been the most anti-economical, anti-liberal Later, in France, under similar but more tragical circumstances, the National Convention tried also, by a maximum force, to counteract the scarcity of 1798; but in France also the evil increased by the remedy itself: so that the American maximum of 1776 can now be better understood, and will be remembered. Let us read in the resolutions of the Provisional Congress of South Carolina, March 1776, the full testimony of this great experience: "Whereas, information has been laid before the Congress that certain persons do monopolize the necessary article of salt, and demand can extravagant price for the same, and also require specie in payment, to the detriment of the continental and cliental currency; the Congress do therefore. "Resolved, That no persons do hereafter presume to soil salt for more than twenty-five shillings per bushel, (about $6.25,) exclusive of the expens