Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance and Currency
Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance and Currency

Author: Duff Green

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781332840960

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Excerpt from Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance and Currency: Addressed to the President of the Confederate States I am aware that many believe that ours is a hard money Government; and that nothing but gold or silver can' be made a tender. I am also aware that many believe that it is impossible to prevent the depreciation of paper money. I am further aware that these opinions are so deeply impressed upon the public mind, that I must sustain my propositions by in uential and reliable authorities, as well as by argument. 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."

American Newspaper Journalists, 1690-1872
American Newspaper Journalists, 1690-1872

Author: Perry J. Ashley

Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Contains the stories of the great pioneers who created the American press and nurtured it from a position of complete subjection to authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the political and economic independence of the "penny press," which catered to the newly enfranchised working class of the nineteenth century.

The Papers of Jefferson Davis
The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Author: Jefferson Davis

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2003-11-07

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 9780807129098

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During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis’s correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant Congress, nay-sayers in the press, disastrous financial conditions, failures in foreign policy and peace efforts, and plummeting national morale, Davis remained in office and tried to maintain the government—even after the fall of Richmond on April 2—until his capture by Union forces on May 10, 1865. The eleventh volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows these tumultuous last months of the Confederacy and illuminates Davis’s policies, feelings, ideas, and relationships, as well as the viewpoints of hundreds of southerners—critics and supporters—who asked favors, pointed out abuses, and offered advice on myriad topics. Printed here for the first time are many speeches and a number of new letters and telegrams. In the course of the volume, Robert E. Lee officially becomes general in chief, Joseph E. Johnston is given a final command, legislation is enacted to place slaves in the army as soldiers, and peace negotiations are opened at the highest levels. The closing pages chronicle Davis’s dramatic flight from Richmond, including emotional correspondence with his wife as the two endeavor to find each other en route and make plans for the future in the wreckage of their lives. The holdings of seventy different manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources contribute to Volume 11, the fifth in the Civil War period.