As that individual has been recently nominated to the Senate to be charge' d'affaires of the United States to the Government of Central America, I take advantage of the occasion to request the Senate to postpone a final decision on his nomination, upon the following grounds:
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It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
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