The clause in the bill, as it came from the House, imposing a tax of ten per cent. on all notes not authorized by Congress which may be paid out after this year by any bank, whether state or national, will do much towards making our currency sound.
Sherman discusses a proposed tax on unauthorized bank notes as a measure to improve currency stability.
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You have all contributed, more or less, in perverting the public mind as to our principles and purposes.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
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