Excerpt from A National Currency The paper money created by the government under the stress of the present war has been generally accepted by the people. It performs all the offices of money as a medium of exchange. It represents all sums from the largest to the smallest. It passes readily from hand to hand, and is of equal value in all parts of the country. Considering the character of the struggle in which we are engaged, this surely may be regarded as a financial achievement of no ordinary merit. But for the currency ...
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Excerpt from A National Currency The paper money created by the government under the stress of the present war has been generally accepted by the people. It performs all the offices of money as a medium of exchange. It represents all sums from the largest to the smallest. It passes readily from hand to hand, and is of equal value in all parts of the country. Considering the character of the struggle in which we are engaged, this surely may be regarded as a financial achievement of no ordinary merit. But for the currency thus furnished, the North ern States would have afforded a spectacle very different from their present prosperous activity, and the conduct of the war, on the vast scale rendered necessary by the extent of the rebel lion, would have been impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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