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694. BANKS, Difficulties caused by.—

For the emolument of a small proportion of
our society, who prefer those demoralizing
pursuits [banking and commerce] to labors
useful to the whole, the peace of the whole
is endangered, and all our present difficulties
produced.—
To Abbe Salimankis. Washington ed. v, 516.
(M. 1810)