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Excerpt from Valics or the Science of Value The trouble is that we, instead of making new con quests for liberty, are even retreating from the ditch so gloriously won of old by our half-fed, unpaid, hard fighting, ragged regiments. 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 use...

Excerpt from Bench and Bar of Ohio, Vol. 2: A Compendium of History and Biography, Illustrated With Steel-Plate and Half-Tone Engravings One of the most accurate and painstaking historians of the Western Reserve has said SO little was known at this time, of the respective powers of the State and of the United States, under the Constitution of 1787, -that many of the parties thought the Land Company had received political authority and could f...

Excerpt from Poems To The Veterans. Ye comrades of a bloody strife Who fought to save a nation's life, Who fought where Grant and Sherman led, Who faced the rebel storm of lead, With Thomas in the van, While Memory still retains her seat, Each breast will warm while you repeat, Yea, while this mortal coil shall last, You'll love to tell through what you've passed And victories you have won. On stern Lookout you faced the foe, The v...

Excerpt from Sketch of the Life of the Honourable John Read: Of Boston, 1722-1749 This Indian deed to Mr. Read, says Mr. Orcutt in his excellent History of New Milford, had stood on the records, sanctioned by a court decision: more than thirty years, when the General Assembly gave the permit to the Old Milford Company, and the deed was received upon the specific condi tions that the plantation should interfere with no other titles. About the...

Excerpt from The Crash of the Gold Combine or Good Gold Cheap: The Gauntlet Thrown Down at the Feet of Single Gold Standard Advocates, The Financial Question Settled and Settled Right, From Cover to Cover This Is a Work That With Reason Appeals to Reason and Is Bold, True and Free Our system of money and trade is wrong and we have endeavored to show wherein the wrong consists. We have kept reasonably near our subject and advanced prin ciples ...

Excerpt from The Alpha of Money: A Reply to Mr. Carnegie's of Money Before going further 1 will state that the word money is very loosely used in ordinary conversation, or rather it has many meanings not ex actly the same. We say good money, and bad money, when as a mat ter of fact if a thing is money at all, it must be good money, and if it is had money it must be false and not money at all. To say that a man has made money means that he has...

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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Biography of Indiana, Vol. 2: Illustrated With Steel Plate and Copper Plate EngravingsIt is fit that the chief executive of a State should welcome to its capital the representatives of a church, of which it was said by an illustrious English philoso pher more than two hundred years ago, 'the Baptists were from the beginning the friends of liberty, just and true lib erty.' A church that led the van in pro claiming t...

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Excerpt from A Poetical Description of the Sixth Army Corps Campaign, During the Year 1863: Together With a Sketch of My Life and Service in the Army, How I Lost My Feet Seven Years After I Was Mustered Out of Service, A History of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Number of Other Articles Relating to the Rebellion No sooner there than we espied, Our enemy beyond the river's tide, Snugly stationed in their ri¿e pits, Already prepared to g...

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