 | Francis d' Ivernois - 1799 - 500 pages
...helplcfs part of the community were deprived of their property, was among the lefier evils which refulted from the legal tender of the depreciated bills of credit. The iniquity of the laws eftranged the minds of many of the citizens from the habits of love and juftice. " The nature of obligations... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 pages
...gained, was just so much taken from others. The evils of depreciation did not terminate with the war. That the helpless part of the community were legislatively...resulted from the legal tender of the depreciated hills of credit. The iniquity of the laws estranged the minds of many of the citizens, from the habits... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 822 pages
...the community were legis-':re/y deprived of their property, was among the lesser evils which resoiled from the legal tender of the depreciated bills of credit. The iniquity '* the laws estranged the minds of many of the citizens from the habits aid krre of justice. THE CAMPAIGN... | |
 | Jacob William Schuckers - 1874 - 144 pages
...others were paid for money lent in specie with depreciated paper, and were compelled to receive it.2 That the helpless part of the community were legislatively...The iniquity of the laws estranged the minds of many citizens from the habits and love of justice. The mounds which government had erected to secure the... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 pages
...part of the community were legislatively deprived of their property was among the lesser evils whicli resulted from the legal tender of the depreciated...estranged the minds of many of the citizens from the hnbits and love, of justice. The nature of obligations was so far changed that he was reckoned the... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1878 - 272 pages
...the community," said Ramsay, the historian of, and prominent actor in, the War of the Revolution, " were legislatively deprived of their property was...lesser evils which resulted from the legal tender of depreciated bills of credit; the iniquity of the laws estranged the minds of many of the citizens from... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Equitable Trust Company of New York - 1921 - 108 pages
...and went far to destroy the morality of our people." Another contemporary writes in 1789 as follows: "The evils of depreciation did not terminate with...resulted from the legal tender of the depreciated bills *David Ramsay, History of the American Revolution, 1789, vol. ii, chap. xvii. fHorace. White, Money... | |
 | Max Winkler - 1999 - 320 pages
...Revolution, published in 1789, the evils of currency debasement are described briefly thus by David Ramsey : "That the helpless part of the community were legislatively...the minds of many of the citizens from the habits of love and justice. The nature of obligations was so far changed that he was reckoned the honest man... | |
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That the helpless part of the community were legislatively deprived of their property, was among the lesser evils which resulted from the legal tender of the depreciated bills of credit. The iniquity of the laws estranged the minds of many of the citizens... 