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Page 273
... gold received from the customs was held in reserve to pay interest on the government's gold bonds . This flood of legal tender paper money , without any gold reserve behind it , and without an accompanying promise of redemption at a ...
... gold received from the customs was held in reserve to pay interest on the government's gold bonds . This flood of legal tender paper money , without any gold reserve behind it , and without an accompanying promise of redemption at a ...
Page 411
... gold in the summer of 1869. There was not much gold in the country outside the national treasury , but the treasury held about one hundred million dollars in coin . The Gould and Fisk campaign was simple enough . All they had to do was ...
... gold in the summer of 1869. There was not much gold in the country outside the national treasury , but the treasury held about one hundred million dollars in coin . The Gould and Fisk campaign was simple enough . All they had to do was ...
Page 414
... gold , as he did not want to put down the price of crops , and he repeated some of Gould's clever sophistries as his own . The Gould and Fisk speculative campaign began about the first of September , when the price of gold stood at 132 ...
... gold , as he did not want to put down the price of crops , and he repeated some of Gould's clever sophistries as his own . The Gould and Fisk speculative campaign began about the first of September , when the price of gold stood at 132 ...
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CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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