Charles Sumner: “The proposed requirement seems to go on the idea that bank-notes, like cows, return from pasture at night; whereas we…”

“The proposed requirement seems to go on the idea that bank-notes, like cows, return from pasture at night; whereas we all know, that, until specie payments, they are more like the wild cattle of the prairies and the pampas; you cannot find them; they are everywhere.”