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A healthy reaction would set in at once, and with it a desire to make the currency equal to what it purports to be.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

He predicts that a healthy economic reaction would occur, aligning currency value with its intended worth.

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