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Excerpt from Speech of Col. Henry S. Fitch, in the State Convention of the National Currency Party of California: Held in Dashaway Hall, San Francisco, June 29th, 1877
The method is very simple, and exceedingly well understood by the money craft. As I have said, at the close of the war there was something more than 350 millions of this continental currency (so called) afloat. Silver and gold coin had been drained from these colonies, much in the same manner that government treats its colonies to-day. This drain was one of the causes of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
