 ... I do not desire that the greenback currency should be made to serve the country as it has done, — vilified, insulted, depreciated by the act of the Government itself ; being refused not only to be received for all debts due the Government, not even...  Butler's Record - Page 31879 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Augustus Bland - Generals - 1879 - 230 pages
...received for all debts due the Government, not even paid for all demands due from the Government. " The ' American system of finance ' which will obtain...certain fixed and stable value below which it cannot go. " Second, I demand that that dollar shall be issued by the Government alone, in the exercise of its... | |
 | Thomas Augustus Bland - Generals - 1879 - 230 pages
...received for all debts due the Government, not even paid for all demands due from the Government. " The ' American system of finance ' which will obtain in the near future, — and I hope at once, — wBich I desire, is : — " First, a dollar that shall have at all times a certain fixed and stable... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - Generals - 1892 - 1252 pages
...received for all debts due the government, but not even paid for all demands due from the government. The "American system of finance," which will obtain...certain fixed and stable value below which it cannot go. Second. I demand that that dollar shall be issued by the government alone, in the exercise of its high... | |
 | Davis Rich Dewey - Finance, Public - 1902 - 642 pages
...limiting the quantity." Much was made of a non-exportable currency. The dollar, it was said, should have at all times a certain fixed and stable value below which it cannot go ; it should be issued by the government alone, in the exercise of its high prerogative and constitutional... | |
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