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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 (search)
proportion of the precious metals—a policy the wisdom of which none can doubt, though there may be different opinions as to the extent to which it should be carried. Its results have been already too auspicious and its success is too closely interwoven with the future prosperity of the country to permit us for a moment to contemplate its abandonment. We have seen under its influence our specie augmented beyond $80,000,000, our coinage increased so as to make that of gold amount between August, 1834, and December, 1836, to $10,000,000, exceeding the whole coinage at the mint during the thirty-one previous years. The prospect of further improvement continued without abatement until the moment of the suspension of specie payments. This policy has now, indeed, been suddenly checked, but is still far from being overthrown. Amid all conflicting theories, one position is undeniable—the precious metals will invariably disappear when there ceases to be a necessity for their use as a cir