The Journal of Banking, from July 1841 to July 1842 ...: To which is Annexed a Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States, from 1690 to 1832 ...1842 - Banks and banking - 412 pages |
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Page 201 - good old rule, the simple plan that they shall take who have the power and they shall keep who can.
Page 293 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Page 403 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and said unto them, It is written. My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 278 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 270 - The absence of the precious metals will, it is believed, be a temporary evil, but until they can again be rendered the general medium of exchange, it devolves on the wisdom of Congress to provide a substitute which shall equally engage the confidence and accommodate the wants of the citizens throughout the Union. If the operation of the state banks cannot produce this result, the probable operation of a national bank will merit consideration...
Page 119 - Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money.
Page 403 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers...
Page 372 - emit bills of credit' conveys to the mind the idea of issuing paper intended to circulate through the community, for its ordinary purposes as money, which paper is redeemable at a future day.
Page 238 - Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.
Page 89 - To provide for the better collection, safe-keeping, and disbursement of the public revenue, by means of a corporation to be styled the Fiscal Corporation of the United States,