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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 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], 200 dollars reward. (search)
d by making them a legal tender. It was the very same which has made the Confederate currency not worth much more than the intrinsic value of the paper. For the first year, when very few bills had been issued, the Continental money was at par. As the necessities of the State required, the issues increased, until the currency became so redundant that Mr. Jefferson says silver and gold, under the like circumstances, would have depreciated. The very same system was tried in Revolutionary France. The Convention, when the value of the assignats declined, tried to keep it up by making it legal tender and passing all sorts of sanguinary laws to force its continued circulation. But they all failed. Why, then — when this thing has been so often tried without success — why try it again? We say nothing of the immense depreciation of morals which is sure to follow such laws, and which, in the case of the colonies, is feelingly lamented by their historians. It is surely not the duty of
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], 50 dollars reward. (search)
tain touching the breadth and firmness of the front which the Confederates will present next spring to meet the bloody crisis of their conflict for all that is most dear to a gallant and generous people. The Confederates regard the course of France and England with bitter disappointment. A sanguine people, they have met in the neutrality of these countries, on which they counted for countenance, a heavy discouragement. The despondency which rests on them now at the turning point of their to the conviction in the public mind that the great maritime powers, if not hostile to the Confederacy, would have long ago given it the encouragement of recognition. The direct material results of that act of even handed justice on the part of France and England this public certainly misapprehends; but the consequences of such an act now would, notwithstanding his, work like a spell in swelling the ranks of its army, floating up its currency, filling the storehouses of its commissariat, and i