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" Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all ; and therefore ought to be the common property of all ; and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy... "
Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 433
by Washington Irving - 1881
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association

Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - Bar associations - 1925 - 106 pages
...ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enmey to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.' In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private and have agrarian laws, which...
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Americana Illustrated, Volume 20

National Americana Society - United States - 1926 - 926 pages
...this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept off the face of the earth. . . . They are determined to annihilate all debts, public...and have agrarian laws, which are easily effected by means of unfunded paper which shall be the tender in all cases whatever. General Washington replied...
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The Constitution of the United States: An Historical Survey of Its Formation

Robert Livingston Schuyler - Constitutional history - 1928 - 234 pages
...creed is an enemy of equality and justice, and ought to be swept from the face of the earth. In a word, they are determined to annihilate all debts public...are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever. . . . We shall have a formidable rebellion against...
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Stabilization of Prices: A Critical Study of the Various Plans Proposed for ...

Joseph Stagg Lawrence - Currency question - 1928 - 520 pages
...1786 comments strikingly on the spread of a spirit which today we would call "bolshevism." "In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public...and have agrarian laws, which are easily effected by means of unfunded paper money which shall be a tender in all cases whatever."9 In spite of the disastrous...
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American History Told by Contemporaries: National expansion, 1783-1845

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 712 pages
...ought to be the common property of all; and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off...are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever." lie adds: "The number of these people amount...
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The Indiana Law Journal, Volume 1

Bar associations - 1925 - 188 pages
...ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enmey to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.' In a word they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private and have agrarian laws, which...
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DHEW Publication No. (OE).

1976 - 136 pages
...common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justics, and ought to be swept from off the face of the Earth. * ****** "They are determined to anihillate [sic) all debts public and private * ****** "The numbers...
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Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity

Richard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) - History - 1987 - 380 pages
...and Proceedings, 12. Washington could only agree with him that many in the state legislatures were "determined to annihilate all debts public and private,...and have Agrarian Laws, which are easily effected by ... paper Money." To Washington and other gentlemen, demands for paper money did indeed seem like demands...
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The Life of George Washington, Volume 4

Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...ought to be the common property of aM, and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off..."They are determined to annihilate all debts, public »nd private, and have agrarian laws, which are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper, which...
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Henry Knox: A Soldier of the Revolution, Major-General in the Continental ...

Noah Brooks - 2007 - 301 pages
...word, they are determined to annihilate all debts public and private, *?88] A Trying Interregnum 195 and have agrarian laws, which are easily effected by the means of unfunded paper money, which shall be a tender in all cases whatever, The numbers of these people may amount, in Massachusetts,...
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