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Victoria C. Woodhull: “The force of this objection, then, is utterly destroyed by these considerations; and especially so, when this same gold…”

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The force of this objection, then, is utterly destroyed by these considerations; and especially so, when this same gold, coined by our government, is recoined by the country we send it to.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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She argues that the objection to gold's role in currency is invalidated by the fact that gold can be recoined in other countries.

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