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ELBRIDGE M'CoNtmv, Corresponding Secre tary. [Sept.S,lB7s. he t . Journal. OF THE To Continue Five Days The Campaign Opened ! A Gallant Charge on the Enemy ! Facts and Figures that are Undeniable! SPEECII OF HON. EDWARD McPHERSON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 16, 1875, ON TILE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN, AT READING, BERKS COUNTY MR CHAIRMAN : This is the first time I have ever met, face to face, the brave Republicans of Berks, who have, for a score of years, shown, in a worthy cause, the noblest devotion to principle.— I am here at the request of the Chairman of the Republican State Committee to ad dress you, as I may, on the political topics of the hour. The Democrats at Eric, alter a fierce struggle of two days, finally agreed upon their ticket and platform. The history of that Convention reveals to the eye of the whole Commonwealth the rent condition of that party, the feuds which distract it, and the absolute want of a common bond of union. The general result must be ac cepted a 3 a revolt against the further leadership of the newly-made Senator from Pennsylvania, who went down under the assaults of a compact combination among his rivals. On the surface, the nomination ofJudge Pershing appears to have come by one of those audacious movements which fre quently sweep through an excited and wearied body. But the secret history, since made known, shows that it was care fully devised in advance ; that the nominee was deliberately selected before the body met, and by one not of their number; that the plan of operation, afterwards carried out by able and trusty lieutenants, was the offspring of the fertile brain and skillful management of Colonel McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, who served in the Legislature with Judge Pershing, in mem orable days, and who doubtless "knew his man." The veil selected to cover the ground of choice was well chosen, and though flimsy, was the best the case af forded. It was because Judge Pershing had sentenced to imprisonment three men who had been convicted before him of a crime. Sir, what else could he have done? Had he done less he would have deserved impeachment. What other Judge in the State would not have likewise done his duty ? To make an especial merit of this is to insult every man who worthily wears judicial robes. JUDGE PERSHING'S LEGISLATIVE RECORD, It is said that Judge Pershing's service in the Legislature was such as to commend him to the people. both for its personal in tegrity and its political rectitude. Of this the people can better judge when the record is examined, as it no doubt will be. I have no charges to make involving the former. It is of the latter only that I pro pose to speak. If the people, after con sidering it, approve it, their basis of judg ment will differ from mine. I find that in the Legislature of 1863, his party being in the majority, he was guilty of the inhumanity of voting for a bill to prohibit colored persons from cow ing into the State to make it their tempo• rary or permanent residence. In the same Legislature he voted for resolutions de nouncing President Lincoln's emancipa tion proclamation as unconstitutional, and his other acts under the war power as ar bitrary and unjust. As if to give empha sis to his love for slavery, we find him in the Legislature of 1865, resisting the rat ification of the thirteenth amendment, and voting against the first and greatest con quest of the war, in these immortal words : "Neither slavery nor involuntary servi tude, except as punishment for clime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to its jurisdic• tion." To crown this amazing subserviency, we find him in the Legislature of 1866 voting against the resolution instructing our Sen ators and requesting our Representatives "to resst the admission into full fellowship as States of any and all the States lately in rebellion until the organic law of the nation shall be so amended as to prctect the credit of the Government; to prevent the payment of any debt incurred by re bellion ; to define the paramount authority of the General Government; to protect all persons in all States in their rights before the law ; to prevent compensation for eman cipated slaves, and to establish an equal basis of representation, and thus secure to the nation the just fruits of the war in augurated wantonly by treason." Under these principles the fourteenth amendment was based. Judge Pershing was not in the Legislature when the formal vote on the ratification was taken, but we have a right to assume that he was as hos tile to these conditions when thus formu lated as before. So that if the people of Pennsylvania have a pride in the absolute freedom of our whole people as conferred in the thirteenth amendment, or have a sense of security under any of the far reaching provisions of the fourteenth amendment, uo part of their gratitude for these is duo to the Democratic nominee for Governor; but ail are enjoyed in spite of his influence and his efforts. Having the , disposition betrayed by these votes, it was, I of course, easy for him to oppose, in the Legislature of 1864, the bill giving the soldiers in the army the right to vote in their camps. Willing to be guilty of so great injustice to men who were actually battling for the preservation of their gov ernment, it is not surprising that he should have found a reason in 1863 for voting against an act to prohibit corporations from paying their employes in orders upon stores, and in 1865 for voting for an act to make the employes of railroad corpora tions responsible for accidents, instead of the corporations themselves. To state this record is to convict him, during the struggle of the war, of the in tensest form of partisanship, and to connect his name with those reactionary efforts which, if successful, would have made the war on our part a useless and a criminal sacrifice of blood and treasure, and would have covered this generation with shame and opened for posterity the floodgates of misery. In the face of such votes it is impossible to deceive the people of Pennsylvania into believing him a proper man to reward with the highest honor in their gift. Clamor may do much to becloud the public judgment, and false claims may for a time mislead, but the stern test of 'actual fact will dispel every cloud and correct every illusion. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1875. GOV. HARTRAN.FT'S MILITARY AND CIVIL RECORD, In striking contrast with all this child ish toying with treason, its causes and re sults, is the career of Gov. Hartranft.— While Judge Pershing was seeking to fasten the chains already upon the slaves General Hartrauft was faithfully making the fight, which after 1862, became inev itably a fight for emancipation, and he faithfully and intelligently accepted the logic of the case. While Judge Pershing, in the Legislature, was seeking to deprive the soldiers in the army of the dearest right of the citizen, and thereby weaken the cause of loyalty and strengthen the hands of disloyalty, Hartranft was baring his breast to the foe and extorting praises, from all men for gallantry in the field.— A grateful people upon the advent of peace called them into his civil service, where he has been known and read of all men from that day to this. For the last three years he has discharged the most difficult and delicate duties which they can impose upon any citizen; and yet a convention of his opponents, as able a body as ever as sembled under that banner, were unable to find a flaw in his career, and adjourned without taking issue upon a single act of his Administration I Not that they would not, if they could, but because they could not—thus, perforce, paying him the high est tribute ever paid within my recollec tion to any Governor in Pennsylvania.— The people cannot fail to note this signi ficant fact, which is a confession in ad vance that although they oppose his re election, it is from other causes than those for which he is responsible, and which have their origin in the desire for the pos session by themselves of the power of his great office. I much mistake the feelings of the people if'they will, without reason,re pudiate a faithful officer to give place to any aspirant, however shrewdly selected and however boldly foisted on his party. STATE ISSUES, The only resolutions in the Democratic platform which refer to the State affairs arc the fourth, fifth and sixth, and they are limited to the State Treasury and the denunciation of the present State Treas urer. As he is not the nominee of the Republican party for that office his record is not in the issue, but it is only simple justice to present, in reply to these charges, such facts as have been officially developed. The fourth retention cen sures the State Treasurer for neglecting to appropriate the moneys in the Sinking Fund to the payment of the public debt as rapidly as required by law ; but the Com missioners of the Sinking Fund, consisting of' Messrs. Quay and Mackey (Republi cans), and Mr. Temple (Democrat), who have charge of these moneys, last month held a meeting and made a statement to the effect that five hundred and eight thousand and eighteen dollars and twenty six cents were all the obligations of the State now due or which may be called at her option, and that tilt re were but four hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and eight cents ($457,483 08) in the Sinking Fund applicable to this purpose, and although the amount in hand was fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) short of the amount due they unanimously resolved to give notice of the payment of them, interest to cease on the first day cf November next. How much more rapidly these moneys could have been appropriated than they have been the Democratic Convention have failed to tell, nor is it easy to see. I am informed, as I believe credibly, that upon the payment of these particular bonds there will be no others which the State will have option to pay until the Ist of November, 1877, so that, to-day, all are provided for which can be provided for within the next two years. The State Treasurer is also censured for not account ing for the interest received by him on the money deposits of the State, and a call made by the discontinuance of the practice by State Treasurers of employing public moneys for their own profit or pur poses. There can be no doubt of the pro priety of' such legislation as will break up the practice. The resolution of the con vention would have been more creditable to its candor if it had admitted, what it no doubt knew to be a fact, that this per nicious practice had its origin in the times when the Democratic party ruled the State. If the gentlemen who reported this resolution, Hon. Francis W. Hughes, de sires to have presumptive evidence of the existence of this practice as far back as 1853, when he was the Secretary of' the Commonwealth, I will refer him to a signi ficant piece of financiering of which he could hardly have been ignorant then, though ho may have forgotten it now.— The year 1853 began with debt less cash in the Treasury of $40,142,264 37. In December 1853, it stood thus : Funded debt Cash borrowed from banks in June, 1853, and unpaid at the end of the year Total 41,156,279 54 Less cash in Treasury, Dee., 1853 724,417 35 Actual debt 40,431,512 19 It will be observed that this temporary loan of $590,000 was made in the month of June as a temporary loan, and was not paid during the year, and yet we find that the following balances were in the State Treasury at the end of each month during the last six months of the year : Juno 30th SI,O7S,SS7 90 . . July 31st 1 ,861,606 05 August 31st 1,179,096 36 September 30th 1,200,593 37 October 31st 806,110 62 November 30th 724,417 35 For part of the time the balance on hand was more than double the amount of the temporary loan, yet it was unpaid, interest accrued upon it, and the Commonwealth derived no benefit from the balances. Is it ungenerous to suggest that some one else did, or this amazing folly could not have occurred ? It appears to me a cu rious coincidence that the presiding genius of this system of finance should have been the head and front of the Eric Convention. TLTE SINKING FUND AND THE PUBLIC DEBT I am glad to know that the Democratic party believe in the Sinking Fund, and that they intend to help protect it. -I con gratulate them upon this. I remember when the Sinking Fund was established under the Whig adwinistratton of Gover nor William F. Johnston, which, upon its accession to power,unshrinkingly addressed itself to the devising of a plan for th© maintenance of the credit of the Common wealth, and which boldly levied new taxes for that purpose. This was done amid the opposition and the derision of the Demo cratic leaders of the day, who, faithless themselves to their duty, were jealous of the efforts ofothers to perform it. Through the operation of that Sinking Fund, and by wise management of the State finances, the public debt has been reduced from forty odd millions of dollars, which the Bigler-Hughes dynasty bequeathed to ns in 1855, to the nominal sum of twenty-three millions of dollars, and to the actual sum of fifteen millions of dollars net in 1875 all within a period of twenty years. Du ring all this time the great measures which built up the Sinking Fund were enacted without the votes of the Democracy ; and in this I include the first great effort of this people to rid itself of a paralyzing in cubus by the sale of the main line of the public wtrks. It is pleasant to know that if the Democracy never helped us to put anything into the Sinking Fund they now propose to help us to keep anything from getting out. Let me add, for the benefit of those who wish to know the Legislative record of their candidate, that when the bill was passed wiping out the tax on real estate and transferring to corporations the burdens thereby taken from the people, Mr. Pershing, though a member of the Legislature, failed to record his vote upon that bill, as if thereby to show his fidelity to the corporations rather than to the peo pie, of which he is said to have given many proofs tetides the two I have named elsewhere. NATIONAL ISSUES-LEGAL TENDER NOTES AND THE CONTRACTION OF THEM The burden of the complaints in the Democratic platform, however, is of national politics, and at an election too, when only state officers are to b 2 chosen. It charges contraction of the currency as the cause of the panic and of the present depression in business, and holds the Re publican party responsible for these re sults. Let us see by the record what the contraction has been, and who made it.— In 1862 the Government of the United States commenced the issue of legal-tender notes. The first issue was of one hundred and Fifty millions of dollars (150,030,000). This was in February, 1852. Four months thereafter Congress authorized one hun dred and fifty millions (150,000,000) more. Eight months thereafter it author ized one hundred and fifty millions (150,- 000,000) more, making four hundred and fifty millions (450,000,000) in all, of which fifty millions (50,000,000) were to be used as temporarily required for the redemption of temporary loans. Their issue was proposed, advocated, and de fended solely as a "war measure" in both houses of Congress, and was justified by its friends by the overwhelming necessity then upon the country, which is the ground upon which the Supreme Court of the United States, in their last decision, sus tained their use as a legal tender in pay meats of all private debts. To quiet anxiety as to the extent of this issue, which had always trebled the amount fixed for it in the beginning, and to aid in placing the large volume of bonds created, Congress, during the war, on the 30th of June, 1864, declared, in the act for the issue of four hundred millions (400,000,000) of six per cent. bonds and of fifty millions (0,000,- 000) of fractional currency, that, '•the total amount of United States notes issued or to be issued shall never exceed four hundred millions of dollars, and such ad ditional sum not exceeding fifty millions (50,000,000) of dollars as may be tem porarily required for the redemption of temporary loans." This pledge remains unrepealed and inviolate. WHO VOTED FOR "CONTRACTION IN 1865, One of the first financial steps taken af ter the war was for the contraction of the currency, the Secretary of the Treasury, at the first session of Congress, having strongly urged the necessity of it. With in two weeks the House of Representa tives responded to that recommendation by the adoption of a resolution cordially concurring in the views of the Secretary, and pledging co operative action to that end as speedily as practicable. That res olution was adopted by the enormous vote of one hundred and forty-four to six, but one Democrat voting against it—among the affirmatives so well-known names as Syd enham E. Ancona, Benjamin M. Boyer, John L Dawson, Charles Denison, Philip Johnson, Samuel J. Randall, and Myer Strouse. In four months Congress ma tured and passed—April 12, 1866—the act authorizing a retirement and cancella tion of ten millions (10,000,000) within six months, and four millions (4,000,000) in any month thereafter. Upon this bill there was but one Democratic vote in oppo sition. In the Senate the negative vote was exclusively Republican, both our Pennsylvania Senators (Buckalew and Cowan) voting in favor of it, with the Democratic Senators generally. Under this law, thus passed, forty-four millions (44,000.000) were retired in the next two years, up to 1868, leaving the amount in circulation at the time of the panic in 1873, three hundred and fifty-six millions (8356,000,000). After that event the Secretary of the Treasury, claiming the lawful power, reissued twenty-six millions (26,000,000) bringing the amount up to three hundred and eighty-two millions (382- 000,000) in Ju1y,1874,0r but eighteen mil lions (18,000,000) less than the maximum amount. One would hardly suppose, from the violence with which the contraction thus far made is denounced, that the en tire force of the Democratic party in Con gress was arrayed in favor of this measure. 590,000 00 SUSPENSION OF "CONTRACTION." But this is not all. Early in 1868 Congress intervened to- suspend contrac• tion, and by law so directed February 4th. Upon this bill, which passed the House largely, I see the Democracy of Pennsyl vania arrayed themselves in opposition, not one of them voting to stop contraction.— The names of Getz, Glossbrenner, Randall, and Woodward have, every one of them, the ring of hard money. There is no further legislation on this subject until after the panic of 1873. THE VETOED CURRENCY BILL. A large part of the session of Congress of 1874 was spent upon it. After long discussion an act finally passed both houses fixing the maximum amount of United States notes at $450,000.000, which would have involved an authority to reissue $18,000,000 more than were then out, and authorizing the issue of $46,000,000 to national banking associa tions to be distributed among the several States. This bill, which was a measure of inflation, and on that ground was vetoed by the President, did not receive the sup port of a single Pennsylvania Democrat, so that if the country today be suffering from the effects of a contracted currency there is as much responsibility for that result upon the Democracy of Pennsylva nia as upon any other portion of the coun try, through their Representatives, and their attempts to shirk it and fix it upon others, partake of the nature of a disrep utable trick. "COIN INTEREST." So also with the other resolution, which demands that the Government should cease to discredit its own money, and should make its legal tenders receivable for all public dues, except when respect for the obligations of contracts require payment in coin. You may be surprised to hear the record of the Democratic members of Congress touching the legislation thus complained of. In 1862, while this legal tender question was pending, the House bill made these notes "receivable in pay ment of all taxes, duties, imposts, excises, debts, and demands of every kind due, to the United States, and for all salaries, debts, and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and as sociations within the United States, and shall also bo lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States." in which form it passed—yeas 93, nays 55 receiving the support of but five members in good standing in the Democratic party, and encountering the opposition of such Democrats as Messrs. Ancona, Biddle, Johnson. Lazear, and Hendrick B. Wright: To make their position more emphatic, I find these gentlemen voted for a proposed substitute for the House bill, which made such notes "receivable for all public dues except duileA on imports, and for all sal aries, debts. and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States at the option of such individuals, corpora tions, and associaticree" The Senate amended the House bill so as to make these notes receivable for all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest span bonds and notes, which shall be paid is coin. This section establishing coin in terest upon United States bonds, and which, therefore, necessitated the payment of duties on imports in coin, was agreed to in the House on a direct vase—yeas 88, nays, 55—every distinctive Democrat is the body roving for that proposition.— Among them are the familiar names of Ancona, isiddle, Holman, Philip Johnson, Henry May, George H. Pendleton, Clem ent L. Vallandingham, Daniel W. Voor bees, and Hendrick B. Wright. Had even one half the Democratic members of that Congress voted otherwise, this "discredit ing of its own money" had never been done. And now a Democratic convention, presided ever by one of the authors of the denounced "discrimination" inveighs against it as a shameful act of the Repub lican party. RESUMPTION ACT OP 1975. Nor is this the only occasion on which a like attempt to evade responsibility has been made. This convention pirticularly denounces the resumption act of January 14, 1875. Evidently the men who drew the platform never read the law, for its great feature is the establishtueat of the system of free banking. The eighth reso lution denounces the present National banking system as an "already dangerous monopoly," when eight months prior to the promulgation of this falsehood, every trace of monopoly had been swept from the system. What is the resumption act ? I bold a copy of it in my hand. The first section provides for the coining at the mint of ten, twenty-five, and fifty cent pieces for the redemption of the forty-five millions of fractional currency now out. The second section repeals the charge of 1-5 of one per centum for converting standing goldbullion into coin. The third section—and I ask special attention to this—repeals the limit of cir culating notes of the National banks. It authorizes each existing bank to in crease the circulating notes under the law without respect to any limit heretofore made. It authorizes new banks to be or r pnized. under the law, without respect to any pre• vious limit. And it repeals ail previous provisions of law for the distribution of National bank currency among the States and Ter- ritories. It also provides that as new notes are issued to existing or to new banks. -It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem legal tender United States notes in excess only of three hat) dred million of dollars to the amount of eighty per centum of the sum of National Bank notes so issued to any such banking association as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption as such circulating notes are issued until there shall be outstanding the sum of three hundred million dollars of such legal tender United States notes, and no more." It also provides "that on and after the Ist day of January, 1879, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem in coin the United States legal tender notes then out standing on their presentation for redemp tion at the office of the Assistant Treas urer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars." And it is also provided that to enable the Secretary to prepare for this redemp tion, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to sell, at not less than par in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds named in the the act of July 14, 1870, to the extent necessaay to carry this act into full effect, sod to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid. It will be observed that the privilege of free banking was instantaneous upon the passage of this act, and it is to day in Fall force and effect. Whenever and where ever more circulation may be needed it is competent for parties in interest to ore;a nize a bank and secure notes for the trans action of business. As fast as new hanks may be organized an enlargement of the currency will be secure'], and such relief obtained as may be possible from that source. The increase is absolute to the extent of twenty per cent. of the amount of the new circulation issued, and after the reductirin of the legal tenders to three hundred millions (300,000,000), the in crease of the currency will keep pace with the increase of banks, awl will respond to the demands of trade. Under this act of 1375 the Secretary of the Treasury has al ready, I understand, retired eight millions (8,000.000) of greenbacks, and has issued ten million dollars of bank notes, showing that up is this time there has been no contraation of currency as a result of the passage of what was known as the resump tion act. To most minds a system of free banking appears to offer the best solution of our troubles, and it was in confident re liance upon the healthful operation of that influence that the Republicans of ibis State relied, when in their platform they resolved in favor of "free banking, s safe and uniform currency adjusted to the growing wants of the business interests of the country, and a steady reduction of the National debt." THE DATE FOE RESUMPTION And now as to the date of reitimption. The history of the act shows that the date finally sehetefl iris a ermipromite betimes those who, like the Prosaism, awash( possible to teatime by the Yonnit of July. 1876, and those who se iml a dads fro years later or more. The imit of immary, 187), was finally hit. upon s p sin the husinesi men of the ennettry apes notice, and enahliog them to ai4uot their business to that sew eoadition. Sell at the same time giving to the GoTernment ample opportunity to fortify itself for the treat It was deemed ansessery to In enerethiag in that direction. in order to ma the pos lie preparation for it. The tlay tsas. of course, an arbitrary selection, made wean sarily upon jodpeest, apes snob hum connected with the mosey comition of, the country as were apparent. Setae sew dealer, voted against the bin beams the day was to remote, others bosom, it as ton early. No man in his semen wood adhere to a fuel day. in the face of door evidence that adherence to it would hireling disaster to the people. Nor would any reasonable man abandna the booms ream to resume until clear evidence appear shot the country is sot ready for it. Time alone will disclose the Circe of the Sego ences now at work to olive this problem ; and there is abundant opportunity Ow so appeal to the low multi. power, .bosh • change of date be dommoisd. DIWOcitATIc Vann OW 11111111319710, DAT. But whenever and by whomsoever ems plaint may be made of the dry sow floe for repurnptiim, lac of limeory, Int it it an apt infiltration of hew Nightly tow men a opinions he et me thaw, so Sod ills Penneylvaeia Democracy sroulkor few* ' bowl of reprobation ; tar. so arming so the reeord. i lad that se the Uds April, 1574. in the Fosse of Reyeemesoa tives. pending the enesiderstiee of the Howe eerroney bill, the Sea I. II How. of Marenebosetts. Jared a puerouitiao that -frogs sad after the few* dry el July, 1874, sethieg but geld sod surer eois of the U.sited States siell be a level tender for the parysiest of soy duet them after enntrveted, sea alter that doe every holder of United Stake ester seal! Inge the right to szsbaelis them at the 'Tomo sty for four sad mile-half per ant beak thirty yews, payable, prieeiyel sod ismer es. in gold, the sorer BO rulhoupd to be easeenod sod donsopa sad so 1.91/ 0111110 to be Used is firs *mot" Tbi sobsd resumption propmsition for Jely 4, Mt was eased for by fear of the lire Aro gone umbers of Prosoyirosis, Nam Clymer, Magee, !Nasdaq, and Spoor, iris of whom were is menu 11.1111611011 slims the Erie Coorsatioe. It the oast bog, Convention, held thereof*, she Porosyl vsais Numerate sesbousei this *eta by molving in favor of “As *wady Awe to bring the Gorerommest sun so par midi gold. sad to seesaw a raters Ie "sae pry meow at the earliest poseihle period that resneiptine esn be elected wtth This year the convention has shjormi its principle.. violsted it, goofiness, sbendon ed the ideas which have skew se s bursas ' upon their pathway sod gleam or is. put history its thiefest glory ; sod it us dose, as many other cowardly thin-p have bean done. for expediesey's sae. seder as si larentent of ambition. mod in the vein hope that, terming up its post. it mien march to the heights of power. What ever else the people of this cesetry res, have done, they have sever penmesiestly confided in any arm or is say party whew principles arc fur sale ; sod it is to the deep discredit of the Demers*, of Pow sylvania that, by their owe coeSimsios, they no longer believe is asythis/. THR DOIOCHATIC R3SZDT In the light of what has lege Aveiro, how aboard and yet astoundirrg is the de. roan,' of the Neineratie Coerveweiee ! It is for the extinetiost of the mune a! bank. And the erahliehaeret its their stud of a systems of free limb of frasseses and di•po-it antler such regidetione so the State; respectively may praveribe, asld 66 raper money except seal se may be hand directly by and epee the Amish of the V.J. oral Government. Wby, the pewees %a. 61031 banking Apia., is , at this sarsmot~ a system of free beaks of ammo, epe► it, and i.sue, ender nmeisesee premeribed by the Geer& tieverseseee, and yids is cirealatioe every idler of ratiereal by a bond representing the faith sod hied ing the wealth of the whole seine ilbs new plan wholly fails is issfieete hoer the currency to be 'leveed ender it in sii Is paid for ; bus the peenenpeion is that whin the parties brill es the ltrasesity the soi entities which the particular State re vireo the riovernment will be baled Rr roar ion obligation., therefor. sod oaf the seinriii ties, whatever they sty be Ors is is. ten d e d ch a t she tiovereieeft shell 1. the paper on all. red the Steles held the secant les r whist ether labri pLoised isespriamble, ie these behind this proposition' The schen, embers the collection le s sennory tray of tie nine hundred maltose or &Sere (SW : 000,000) dye the boobs by which would seen a ensinsreed ;seer seeb as this emsetry lee error sew we any visionary ever eseeente4. 1t tt~t~M involve the withdrawal and isteillsones at enormous amounts of itteeesesor is MSS and otherwise. to the prelleile fate portions of them. 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