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5621. NATIONAL CURRENCY, Bank suspensions and.—

The failure of our banks
* * * restores to us a fund which ought
never to have been surrendered by the nation,
and which now, prudently used, will carry
us through all the fiscal difficulties of the
war.—
To President Madison. Washington ed. vi, 386.
(M. Sep. 1814)