Browsing named entities in Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler. You can also browse the collection for Jay Cooke or search for Jay Cooke in all documents.

Your search returned 6 results in 1 document section:

Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
nd distinctly by an act of the Congress of the United States. I agree that Mr. Jay Cooke advertised, after some sort, when endeavoring to sell it, that the principaone case, we are bound as well in the other; and does my friend insist that Mr. Jay Cooke has bound the country to the proposition that a national debt is a national. When I called the attention of the country to this some little time ago, Mr. Jay Cooke, for whom. I have very high respect, wrote me that I was mistaken; that whsist that a national debt .managed any how, by anybody — the Angel Gabriel or Jay Cooke or any other body — is not a national blessing. [Laughter.] No management oflly cost the United States nothing. One of the ablest bankers of them all, Mr. Jay Cooke, has undertaken to tell us that the banks pay in taxes a large amount, and therefore in equity we ought not to disturb them. Sir, if Mr. Jay Cooke or any one else will tell me of any business in this country that is not taxed and does not