Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der officiellen Actenstücke zur Geschichte der Gegenwart, herausg. von L.K. Aegidi und A. Klauhold. [With] 1er (2er) Neue Folge, Bd.1, Heft 1-4, herausg. von F. Thimme, Bände 14-15

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Ludwig Karl Aegidi
1868
 

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Seite 73 - A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness; it wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.
Seite 73 - Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring 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.
Seite 73 - Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation — these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community compared with a fraudulent currency and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Our own history has recorded for our instruction enough, and more than enough, of the demoralizing tendency, the injustice, and the intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well disposed of a degraded paper currency authorized by law or in any way countenanced by government.
Seite 64 - ... negroes have shown less capacity for Government than any other race of people. No independent government of any form has ever been successful in their hands. On the contrary, wherever they have been left to their own devices they have shown a constant tendency to relapse into barbarism.
Seite 59 - On the contrary, candor compels me to declare that at this time there is no Union as our fathers understood the term, and as they meant it to be understood by us. The Union which they established can exist only where all the States are represented in both Houses of Congress; where one State is as free as another to regulate its internal concerns according to its own will, and where the laws of the central Government, strictly confined to matters of national jurisdiction, apply with equal force to...
Seite 65 - To give it indiscriminately to a new class, wholly unprepared by previous habits and opportunities to perform the trust which it demands, is to degrade it, and finally to destroy its power; for it may be safely assumed that no political truth is better established than that such indiscriminate and all-embracing extension of popular suffrage must end at last in its overthrow and destruction.
Seite 70 - ... of its notes and those of the national banks to convert them, without loss, into specie or its equivalent. A reduction of our paper circulating medium need not necessarily follow. This, however, would depend upon the law of demand and supply, though it should be...
Seite 14 - Si des événements naturels ou des travaux d'art venaient, par la suite, à rendre impraticables les voies de navigation indiquées au présent article, le gouvernement des Pays-Bas assignera à la navigation belge d'autres voies aussi sûres et aussi bonnes et commodes en remplacement desdites voies de navigation devenues impraticables.
Seite 449 - Maassregelu, das Sammeln aller Beweismittel bezüglich der vollbrachten oder versuchten Zollumgehung, sowie den Umständen nach die einstweilige Beschlagnahme der Waaren und die Festhaltung der Thäter zu beantragen. Anträgen dieser Art sollen die Ortsvorstände und Behörden jedes der...
Seite 436 - Beobachtung der doshalb getroffenen besonderen Vorschriften, zurückgeführte Gegenstände, wenn die wesentliche Beschaffenheit und die Benennung derselben unverändert bleibt: und zwar in dem Falle unter c.

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