Objection had been made that under the first mode resumption would be a process of converting a non-interest bearing note into an interest bearing note, and that was true, but what right had we, as a nation, or had any bank, or individual, to force in to circulation, as money, its note upon which it paid no interest?
Sherman addresses objections to currency contraction, questioning the legitimacy of non-interest bearing notes.
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