| Robert Rantoul - United States - 1837 - 76 pages
...persisted in — the crime of cheating the laboring classes by the delusion of paper money — fertilizing the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Who then are guilty of this heinous crime ; for the innocent must not share the shame ; who are the... | |
| Ephraim Banks - Bank notes - 1838 - 436 pages
...class of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field l>y tlie sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear... | |
| Friedrich von Raumer - United States - 1846 - 522 pages
...classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper-money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the...rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
| John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilise the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
| Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - Legislation - 1878 - 838 pages
...classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the...rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation — these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1856 - 844 pages
...cheating mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field with the sweat of the poor man's brow.' And on another occasion he said, ' My proposition would be,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 582 pages
...classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the...rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the...rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the...man's field, by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
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