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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Extortioners, forestallers, brokers, &c. (search)
disappears at the first frost of October; when the country was deluged with assignats, worth about half a sons to the livre, (that is, about forty to one.) and commodities had gone up in proportion in the depreciation of the currency, the mob of Paris attributed it all to the acts of extortioners, forestallers, and brokers. The last named class were supposed to have all the coin in the country, and to impair the value of the currency by the enormous prices which they charged for it; and, for ained. We are thankful that matters have never proceeded to that extremity in these Confederate States, nor do we believe it possible that they ever should. But it is apparent that a delusion very similar to that which stimulated the mob of Paris in those terrible days to so many deeds of horror is widely prevalent. The soberest, best informed, and most conscientious men among us are constantly in the habit of attributing to brokers, extortioners, and forestallers, a state of things whic