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Excerpt from The Bane and Antidote of Our Monetary System Suggested, and the Impolicy of the Bank Charter Act of 1844: Demonstrated, in a Series of Letters and Essays
Let us consider the effect of thus introducing credit money, in other terms paper money, into a country where pre viously the currency ms entirely of gold and silver; the quantity then in circulation being naturally just as much as the country required, the introduction of paper mone y, which would answer the purpose equally well if as safe, would dis engage just as much of the precious metals as it supplanted.
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