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5628. NATIONAL CURRENCY, Circulating medium.—[further continued].

The war, had it proceeded,
would have upset our government;
and a new one, whenever tried, will do it.
And so it must be while our money, the nerve
of war, is much or little, real or imaginary,
as our bitterest enemies choose to make it.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. vi, 498.
(M. Oct. 1815)