Engaged from day to day in their useful toils, they do not perceive that although their wages are nominally the same, or even somewhat higher, they are greatly reduced in fact by the rapid increase of a spurious currency, which, as it appears to make money abound, they are at first inclined to consider a blessing.
Jackson explains how the laboring classes initially misinterpret the effects of a spurious currency on their wages.
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If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
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