Excerpt from A Popular Treatise, the Currency Question: Written From a Southern Point of View

HE contents of this volume first appeared in the form of anonymous essays in T he State newspaper of Richmond, Virginia. These have been somewhat changed in form, substance and arrange ment, and have also been condensed in some feat ures and amplified in others, as now published. The work is, in origin, aim and spirit, a popular trea tise, making no pretension to scientific method or completeness.

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