Grateful as was the relief to the people from legal-tender notes, it was apparent to Congress that a government cannot, any more than an individual, maintain a state of solvency by the continuous issuing of irredeemable paper.
Blaine warns that continuous issuance of irredeemable paper cannot sustain government solvency, paralleling individual finance.
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Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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