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Thomas Marshall was no fanatic, no fancy-swayed enthusiast resolving highly in wrought-up moments and retracting humbly in more sober hours.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Thomas Marshall was no fanatic, no fancy-swayed enthusiast resolving highly in wrought-up moments and retracting humbly…”
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Beveridge describes Thomas Marshall as a rational and level-headed individual during tumultuous times.
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My God! what a situation has our country reached.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.
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