Paper Money is a Disease

Washington, D.C.: Intelligence Printing House, 1869. Unopened folded pamphlet; 8 pp. Some soiling and creasing. Garret Davis (1801–1872), Whig Party U.S. Senator gave this speech on how to handle the U.S. Debt: We must stay with gold: ​“Three are four ways of dealing with the national debt by Congress: 1. To pay the nominal amount of the bonds in gold and silver coin. 2. To pay them in greenbacks. 3. To pay their gold value in coin. 4. To repudiate them.” ​“The people that have a sound gold circulation have as much advantage in this contest over another which has a vicious paper circulation as one man possessing a healthy, life-giving blood would have in a long personal contest over another whose diseased and slowly-coursing fluid was the sure precurser of death.” At the time of cataloguing, no other copy for sale.