If in 1885 it was not practicable to secure the adoption of the bimetallic system, when silver was worth eighty-four cents per ounce, what is the prospect of its adoption when silver is worth only sixty- four cents per ounce, with an annually increasing product and a diminishing price?
Boutwell raises concerns about the feasibility of adopting a bimetallic system given the declining value of silver.
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The gratitude of his countrymen rebuked all rivalries.
On no man in public life in this generation were there more frequent charges and insinuations of wrong-doing, and in this generation there has been no man in public life who was freer from all occasion for such insinuations and charges.
Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?
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