The folly of this scheme needs no illustration." Another proposition, pressed very earnestly, was to strike out the legal-tender clause, and make the notes receivable for all taxes and public dues, but not to make any provision for redeeming them in coin on demand.
Blaine critiques a proposed financial scheme regarding legal-tender notes and their potential failure.
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An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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