Albert GallatinHoughton, Mifflin, 1898 - 423 Seiten |
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Seite 232 - all our engagements and defray the current expenses of government without recurring to any loan; but the insecurity of our commerce and the consequent demands of the public revenue will probably produce a deficiency in the receipts of the ensuing year." Beyond this Madison did not venture ; Gallatin was left alone. The Treasury report of December
Seite 150 - a resolution was introduced that it is not now expedient for the United States to resort to war against the French Republic; a second, to restrict the arming of merchant vessels; and a third, to provide for the protection of the seacoast and the internal
Seite 220 - resources for the purpose of supporting useless baubles, of increasing the number of idle and dissipated members of the community, of fattening contractors, pursers, and agents, and of introducing in all its ramifications that system of patronage, corruption, and rottenness which you justly execrate.
Seite 263 - of treasury notes and temporary loans, paid into the treasury from the commencement of the war to the end of the year 1814 were $41,010,000: of which sum the Eastern States lent $2,900,000; the Middle States, $35,790,000; Southwestern States, $2,320,000. The floating debt of the United States,
Seite 157 - The President's speech announced no change in the situation. "Nothing," he said, "is discoverable in the conduct of France which ought to change or relax our measures for
Seite 125 - unless a radical change of opinion can be effected in the Southern States, the existing establishments will not last eighteen months. The influence of Messrs. Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson must be diminished, or the public affairs will be brought to a stand.
Seite vi - and ours as the same, and that the object of both must be to exclude all European influence in this hemisphere.
Seite 214 - The loan of $16,000,000 was obtained in the following places : — States east of New York $486,700 State of New York 5,720,000 Philadelphia, Pa 6,858,400 Baltimore and District of Columbia . . 2,393,300 State of Virginia 187,000 Charleston, S. C 354,000 $16,000,000 The history of this subscription is not without interest. The extremely small subscriptions in New England and
Seite 249 - have been adjusted without question with the exception of a few small balances, now in the process of collection, of which it is believed that the government will eventually lose less than $13,000, or less than four mills for each
Seite 263 - to $7,326,000 on June 1, 1814. This was a consequence of the New England policy of opposition. Mr. Gallatin estimated that the proceeds of loans, exclusive of treasury notes and temporary loans, paid into the treasury from the commencement of the war to the end of the year 1814