| Fitzwilliam Byrdsall - New York (State) - 1842 - 200 pages
...present system of banking or the issue of " paper money") is one of the greatest of political evils, as it undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, wars against industry and economy, and fosters the evil spirit of speculation and extravagance ; and... | |
| John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...stable and secure by its immediate relation to that which the whole world regards as of permanent value. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy; and it fosters the evil spirit of extravagance... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...which the whole world regards as of a permanent value. A disordered currency is one of the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy ; and it fosters the evil spirits... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...exemplification of all the evils which he depicted. He said : "A disordered currency is one of the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy ; and it fosters the evil spirits... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...of all the evils which he depicted. He said : •' A disordered currency is one of the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its j happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy; and it fosters the tvil spirits... | |
| Commerce - 1857 - 808 pages
...Benton's Thirty Years' View, page 244, volume ii. : — " A disorderly currency is one of the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirit... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1858 - 822 pages
...exemplification of all the evils which he depicted. He said : " A disordered currency is one of the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary...for the support of the social system, and encourages projjensities destructive of its happiness. It wars against industry, fruj gality, and economy; and... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1869 - 878 pages
...subject to be blown up or blown down by the breath of speculation, but to be made stable and secure. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness; it wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirit... | |
| United States. President - United States - 1867 - 866 pages
...subject to be blown up or blown down by the breath of speculation, but to be made stable and secure. Д. disordered currency is one of the greatest political...social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness; it wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1868 - 764 pages
...virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness ; it wars against industry, frugality,...the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation." It has heen asserted hy one of our profound and most gifted statesmen, .that "of all the contrivances... | |
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