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“…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one To - (December 1779-March 1780) The necessity of
a foreign loan is now greater than ever. -- Chapter two To
James Duane (September 3, 1780) My ideas of the defects of our present system. -- Chapter three To Robert Morris (April 30, 1781)
Banks . . . the happiest engines that ever were invented for advancing trade. -- Chapter four The Continentalist (1781-1782) There is something noble and magnificent . . .
a great Federal Republic. -- chapter five Constitution of the
Bank of New York (February 23-March 15, 1784) The
Bank shall be called . . . the
Bank of New York. -- chapter six To Thomas Willing (September 13, 1789) My inviolable attachment to the principles which form the basis of public credit. -- chapter seven Report Relative to
a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (January 9, 1790) The debt of the United States . . . was the price of liberty. -- Chapter eight To Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard (August 28, 1790) The faith of our Government is fully pledged by the laws. -- Chapter nine First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (December 13, 1790) Most immediately essential . . . is the establishment of funds for paying the interest. -- Chapter ten Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (Report on
a National
Bank, December 14, 1790)
A National
Bank is an institution of primary importance. -- Chapter eleven Report on the Establishment of
a Mint (January 28, 1791) The unit in the coins of the United States . . .
a dollar in the money of account. -- Chapter twelve Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish
a National
Bank (February 23, 1791) Every power vested in
a Government is in its nature sovereign. -- Chapter thirteen Prospectus of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (August 1791) The establishment of Manufactures [is] of the highest importance. -- Chapter fourteen Report on the Subject of Manufactures (December 5, 1791) The expediency of encouraging manufactures [is] pretty generally admitted. -- Chapter fifteen To William Seton (February 10 and March 22, 1792) The superstructure of Credit is now too vast for the foundation. -- Chapter seventeen The Defense of the Funding System (July 1795) Credit may be called
a new power in the mechanism of national affairs. -- Chapter eighteen Articles of Association of the Merchants
Bank (April 7, 1803) We, the Subscribers, have formed
a Company . . . the "Merchants'
Bank." -- Conclusion Legacies of the U.S. financial revolution. -- Notes -- Index…”
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