Het aandeel van den Amsterdamschen handel aan den opbouw van het Amerikaansche gemeenebest, Volume 1 |
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Page 99 - one material which actually constitutes an aristocracy that governs the nation. That material is wealth. Talents, birth, virtues, services, sacrifices, are of little consideration with us.
Page 211 - ... at common interest, were added, and to these were joined purchases of stock on credits, for various terms, so as to create a delusive confidence that the concentration of so much stock in a few hands would secure a very high market rate. This expectation was increased by comparing the market values of the several species of our funds with those of the same species of stock in Great Britain, the United Netherlands, and other parts of Europe, without due allowance for the deductions which should...
Page 149 - men — actual men possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal." Throughout the secret discussions at the Constitutional Convention it was clear that this distrust of man was first and foremost a distrust of the common man and democratic rule. As the Revolution took away the restraining hand of the British government, old colonial grievances of farmers, debtors...
Page 116 - He alone is able and willing to grant that liberal credit, which must be extorted from his competitors by the rashness of their early ventures ; they will soon discover that America has neither money nor sufficient produce to send in return, and cannot have for some time ; and not intending or being able to give credit, their funds will be exhausted, their agents will never return, and the ruin of the first creditors will serve as a lasting warning to their countrymen.
Page 225 - Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicolaas and Jacob van Staphorst and De la Lande and Fynje...
Page 78 - ... their clamour, render it more difficult to appease them; an army ready to disband or mutiny; a government whose sole authority consists in the power of framing recommendations. Surely it is not necessary to add any colouring to such a piece, and yet truth would justify more than fancy could paint.
Page 228 - ... with the interests and charges ; for the accomplishment and performance of all the above written, the honorable appearer binds in his aforesaid quality, and thus, in the names and on the part of the abovementioned United States of America, the said United States of America, jointly, and each of them in particular, together with all their lands, chattels, revenues and products...
Page 74 - ... from individuals that credit which property, abilities, and integrity never fail to command; to supply the loss of that paper money which, becoming more and more useless, calls every day more loudly for its final redemption; and to give a new spring to commerce in a moment when, by the removal of all restrictions, the citizens of America shall enjoy and possess that freedom for which they contend.
Page 4 - A king who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people degenerates into a tyrant and forfeits all right to obedience.
Page 77 - the situation of a man, who is to direct the finances of a country almost without revenue, (for such you will perceive this to be) surrounded by creditors, whose distresses, while they increase their clamors, render it more difficult to appease them...