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Charles Sumner: “I know no way in which this conviction can be created so promptly and easily as by redeeming in gold some one of our six…”

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I know no way in which this conviction can be created so promptly and easily as by redeeming in gold some one of our six per cent. loans; and that most naturally selected is the first, which is already so noted from the discussion to which it has been subjected.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He suggests that redeeming loans in gold can quickly restore confidence in the financial system.

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