A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... banks have stopped payment in specie , and there is not a dollar to be had . I walked down Wall - street , and had a convincing proof of the great demand for money , for somebody picked my pocket . The militia are under arms , as riots ...
... banks have stopped payment in specie , and there is not a dollar to be had . I walked down Wall - street , and had a convincing proof of the great demand for money , for somebody picked my pocket . The militia are under arms , as riots ...
Halaman 17
... banks , although they virtually have stopped payment ; -they never refuse anything in New York ; but nobody will give specie in change , and great distress is occasioned by this want of a circulating medium . Some of the shop- keepers ...
... banks , although they virtually have stopped payment ; -they never refuse anything in New York ; but nobody will give specie in change , and great distress is occasioned by this want of a circulating medium . Some of the shop- keepers ...
Halaman 18
... banks suspended specie payments - an act of despotism which the English government would not venture upon . Miss ... bank - notes , or as they are called here , shin - plasters , which are good for one dollar , and from that down to two ...
... banks suspended specie payments - an act of despotism which the English government would not venture upon . Miss ... bank - notes , or as they are called here , shin - plasters , which are good for one dollar , and from that down to two ...
Halaman 20
... bank bills or Mexican dollars , which they laid by for a rainy day , and they remained locked up for years be- fore ... banks stopping payment , was told me by a gentleman from Baltimore . He went into a store to purchase , as he often ...
... bank bills or Mexican dollars , which they laid by for a rainy day , and they remained locked up for years be- fore ... banks stopping payment , was told me by a gentleman from Baltimore . He went into a store to purchase , as he often ...
Halaman 23
... banks , or fished and paddled their canoes in its stream ? They have disappeared from the earth , and scarce a vestige remains of them , except in history . No portion of this world was ever intended to remain for ages untenant- ed ...
... banks , or fished and paddled their canoes in its stream ? They have disappeared from the earth , and scarce a vestige remains of them , except in history . No portion of this world was ever intended to remain for ages untenant- ed ...
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Halaman 188 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Halaman 73 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Halaman 68 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Halaman 188 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Halaman 46 - Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally, — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Halaman 164 - No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Halaman 72 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Halaman 68 - ... If a man have a stubborn or rebellious son, of sufficient years and understanding (viz.) sixteen years of age, which will not obey the voice of his Father, or the voice of his Mother, and that when they have chastened him...
Halaman 102 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors
Halaman 68 - If any child or children above sixteen years old and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel correction, that they have been forced thereunto, to preserve themselves from death or maiming.