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Seldom has such a financial motley ever covered with variegated rags the backs of a people.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Seldom has such a financial motley ever covered with variegated rags the backs of a people.”
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This metaphor illustrates the dire financial situation faced by the American populace at the time.
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These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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