 | Robert Rantoul - United States - 1837 - 80 pages
...five years since. " Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them •with...effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's fields by the sweat of thepoor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these... | |
 | Robert Rantoul - United States - 1837 - 76 pages
...is so frightful as to fully justify the strong language used by Daniel Webster five years since. " Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual... | |
 | Ephraim Banks - Bank notes - 1838 - 436 pages
...following language:—"Ofall the contrivances for cheating the laboring class of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with...effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field l>y tlie sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1842 - 422 pages
...folly."— Daniel Wpbsler, 1816. Extract from a Speech of Daniel Webster in the II. S. Senate in 1832. " Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none is so effectual as that which deludes them with Paper Money ! ! ! It is the most perfect expedient... | |
 | John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...the evil spirit of extravagance and speculation. Of all the contrivances for cheating the labouring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than...money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilise the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...industry, frugality, and economy ; and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation. Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring...been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper-money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat... | |
 | John Pickering - Business & Economics - 1847 - 222 pages
...of a most extraordinary, and, as I think, alarming nature." Danl. Webster, H. Rep., June 2nd, 1815. "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none is so effectual as that which deludes with paper money! It is the most perfect expedient ever invented... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1856 - 844 pages
...Webster, in a speech delivered more than twenty year* ago, said, ' Of all the contrivances for cheating mankind, none has been more effectual than that which...effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field with the sweat of the poor man's brow.' And on another occasion he said, ' My proposition would be,... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1114 pages
...into dollars, to circulate as the money of the country. I believe in the words of Mr. Webster, " that of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring...effectual than that which deludes them with paper money;" and that "this IB the most effectual of inventions t" fertilize the rich man's field with the sweat... | |
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It has been asserted by one of our profound and most gifted statesmen, that "of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of... 
