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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2,462 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 692 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 516 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 418 0 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 358 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 230 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 190 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 186 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 182 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
groan. The effect of these laws, (legal tender laws,) says Gouverneur Morris, "is to destroy, and not to sustain, the value of the declining currency. If a dollar in paper is as good as a dollar in silver, why compel the holder of one to exchange it for the other? The plea of necessity will not arrest the clamor of inquiry, nor soften the iniquity of injustice. Legal tender laws tend to destroy the confidence of the people in the integrity as well as the wisdom of their rulers." In France, when the assignats had fallen to two or three for one, the National Assembly attempted to arrest the depreciation by enacting that any man who should exchange any quantity of silver or gold for assignats at less than their nominal value should suffer six years imprisonment in irons, and prescribed the same punishment for any person who should ask a greater price for merchandize in assignats than it would bring in gold. They afterwards made assignats a legal tender, and succeeded in ruining
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Narrative of Gen. Morgan's escape. (search)
An article in the Enquirer of Monday states that the maximum was repealed in France in December, 1794. This is no doubt correct. We had been under the impression that it was repealed in August. At any rate, it was so relaxed, immediately after the overthrow of Robespierre, that by the first of September its collecting agents had been reduced from 10,000 to 100. The law was executed with such laxity from the day of the triumph over Robespierre that it amounted to nothing, and the Convention winked at the change. Before it was formally repealed it had already, virtually, ceased to exist.