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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Had greenbacks been made legal-tender for all governmental purposes, they would have been “real money,” having intrinsic…”

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Had greenbacks been made legal-tender for all governmental purposes, they would have been “real money,” having intrinsic value, of which nothing short of the absolute destruction of the country and death of its inhabitants could have robbed them.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull asserts that if greenbacks had been recognized as legal-tender, they would have been considered real money with intrinsic value.

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