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Charles Sumner: “Surely it is the dictate of wisdom, instead of creating a third paper currency, to disembarrass the country of one of…”

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Surely it is the dictate of wisdom, instead of creating a third paper currency, to disembarrass the country of one of those now existing and make the other convertible into coin, so that we may hereafter enjoy one uniform currency.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner advocates for reducing the number of paper currencies to achieve a uniform currency system.

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