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06-07-14, 12:47 PM
doug555
The Currency Question
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The Currency Question - A timely "letter" to us today
from February 13, 1865 by Henry C. Carey in view of the
rampant talk of the demise of the "FRN" Dollar.
Attachment 1789
Quote:
“It is noteworthy that Lincoln issued this statement of his monetary policy in 1865,
just before the end of the civil war. A matter of weeks later, he was assassinated.
As the publication date and whole tenor of the document show, Lincoln’s intention
was to advance his monetary policy, based upon the government creation of
money, and apply it more fully after the war. The motive behind Lincoln’s
assassination has never been established, and is usually attributed to the
deranged actions of a lunatic. However, it has been speculated many times that
Lincoln’s death was connected with the fact that such a monetary policy as he
was proposing, if pursued effectively, would have signaled the end of the banking
and money power in the United States, and very rapidly everywhere throughout
the developing world. Once that one government was seen to be capable of
supplying its nation’s monetary needs, others would certainly have followed. The
power and profit which national debts and widespread private industrial debts
provided to the world’s most shadowy and powerful elite – bankers and financiers
– would have soon vanished.” - The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money,
Debt Servitude, and Destructive Economics (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998),
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“If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall
become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own
money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the
money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without
precedent in the history of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will
go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every
monarchy on the globe.” - Hazard Circular – London Times 1865.
“What is here supposed to have been done [someone issuing his own credit as
money and acting as a clearing house for the whole country for buying all labor
and products] is almost precisely what has been done by Mr. Lincoln and his
Administration… It had so facilitated exchange between consumers and
producers, that both parties had been enabled to pay on the instant for all they
had need to purchase.” - Letters to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax by Henry C. Carey,
1865, pages 129-130.
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