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Excerpt from Report of the Committee of the Boston Board of Trade, Appointed at the Annual Meeting, January 20, 1858: To Make a Deliberate and Thorough Investigation Into the Causes of the Recent Monetary Difficulties and Mercantile Embarrassments, With a View to the Adoption of Such Remedies as the Nature of the Case Will Allow
That they have entered into the consideration of the subject referred to them, not unmindful of its peculiar importance. It has been, within the last few months, the prolific theme of some of the ablest writers in this country and in England. Indeed, so wide a range has the discussion already reached, extending from the present, back to the earliest period in the history of commerce, and to the origin of the banking system, that it is not deemed necessary to our present purpose to review the history of the prominent facts of a remote period, but to refer to such of the more recent events as have been, in a greater or less degree, instrumental in producing the late monetary difficulties and crisis - a crisis which, in its sudden development and extent.
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