A RESOURCE OF WAR-THE CREDIT OF THE GOVERNMENT MADE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. HISTORY OF THE LEGAL TENDER PAPER MONEY ISSUED DURING THE GREAT REBELLION. BEING A Loau without Interest and a National Currency. PREPARED BY Hon. E. G. SPAULDING, Chairman, OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS, AT THE TIME THE ACT WAS PASSED. In such a nation as this, there is one and only one RESOURCE for loans sufficient to carry hrough the expenses of a GREAT WAR, namely, fundable Treasury Notes fitted for circulation as money, and based upon adequate taxation. "That in the interval between war and war, all the outstanding paper should be called in coin permitted to flow in again, and hold the field of circulation, until another war should re quire its yielding place again to the NATIONAL MEDIUM."-JEFFERSON. BUFFALO: EXPRESS PRINTING COMPANY, 14 EAST SWAN STREET, INDEX. Loan of $150,000,000 by the Associated Banks, Who composed the Committee of Ways and Means, Sub-Committee, Messrs. Spaulding, Hooper and Corning, Secretary Chase's financial plan, a bank and taxation, Letters of J. W. Simonton, T. Denny & Co., J. E. Williams, Section for $500,000,000 of 5-20 bonds, Letter of Secretary Chase, January 22, 1862, National Intelligencer, Col. Seaton, etc., Mr. Spaulding's opening Speech on the bill, Value of the Real and Personal property, $16,159,616,068, Mr. Pendleton's Speech on the bill, iv Mr. Corning's resolution asking opinion of Secretary Chase, 45 45 46 Letters of John A. Stevens, George Opdyke and R. Morris, 47 48-49 51-52 Mr. Roscoe Conkling, Mr. Morrill, Stevens and Spaulding, 57-58 The substitute of Mr. Morrill, Conkling and others lost, Copy of bill as passed the House February 6, 1862, 92, 93, 94 95-96 66-67 98 Letter of J. W. Simonton on the origin of legal tender act, 99-100 99 - 100 100 - 106-107 109, 110, 111 114, 115, 116 117, 118, 119 121 121-122 122-123 124 - 124 |