A Money system which rests upon a bottle of ink, a quire of paper, and a printing press is so simple that even a wayfaring fool may comprehend it.
And when it comes to pass that any Mogul of Finance can turn himself, in the twinkle of an eye, into a Paper-money Mill, our currency will be “elastic” to beat the band.
Go it, Moguls!
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The brilliant paragrapher of the Atlanta Journal writes:
“The only thing lacking about the dismissal of those negro troops was that they should have been disbanded in Boston.”
Inasmuch as nearly all of “those negro troops” will be given permission to re-enlist, it isn’t clear to my mind that Boston couldn’t have enjoyed the episode quite as much as any other city—Atlanta, for instance.
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The same paragrapher who is really one of the brightest of the bunch, remarks:
“Stonewall Jackson once declared that ‘nothing justifies profanity.’ But then he never tried being Speaker of the House.”