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قراءة كتاب Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850
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Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850
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THIRTY YEARS' VIEW;
OR,
A HISTORY OF THE WORKING OF THE AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT FOR THIRTY YEARS,
FROM 1820 TO 1850.
CHIEFLY TAKEN
FROM THE CONGRESS DEBATES, THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF GENERAL JACKSON,
AND THE SPEECHES OF EX-SENATOR BENTON, WITH HIS
ACTUAL VIEW OF MEN AND AFFAIRS:
WITH
HISTORICAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, AND SOME NOTICES OF EMINENT
DECEASED COTEMPORARIES.
BY A SENATOR OF THIRTY YEARS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1883.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Inauguration of Mr. Van Buren | 7 |
| II. | Financial and Monetary Crisis—General Suspension of Specie Payments by the Banks | 9 |
| III. | Preparation for the Distress and Suspension | 11 |
| IV. | Progress of the Distress, and Preliminaries for the Suspension | 16 |
| V. | Actual Suspension of the Banks—Propagation of the Alarm | 20 |
| VI. | Transmigration of the Bank of the United States from a Federal to a State Institution | 23 |
| VII. | Effects of the Suspension—General Derangement of Business—Suppression and Ridicule of the Specie Currency—Submission of the People—Call of Congress | 26 |
| VIII. | Extra Session—Message, and Recommendations | 28 |
| IX. | Attacks on the Message—Treasury Notes | 32 |
| X. | Retention of the Fourth Deposit Instalment | 36 |
| XI. | Independent Treasury and Hard Money Payments | 39 |
| XII. | Attempted Resumption of Specie Payments | 42 |
| XIII. | Bankrupt Act against Banks | 43 |
| XIV. | Bankrupt Act for Banks—Mr. Benton's Speech | 45 |
| XV. | Divorce of Bank and State—Mr. Benton's Speech | 56 |
| XVI. | First Regular Session under Mr. Van Buren's Administration—His Message | 65 |
| XVII. | Pennsylvania Bank of the United States—Its Use of the Defunct Notes of the expired Institution | 67 |
| XVIII. | Florida Indian War—Its Origin and Conduct | 70 |
| XIX. | Florida Indian War—Historical Speech of Mr. Benton | 72 |
| XX. | Resumption of Specie Payments by the New York Banks | 83 |
| XXI. | Resumption of Specie Payments—Historical Notices—Mr. Benton's Speech—Extracts | 85 |
| XXII. | Mr. Clay's Resolution in Favor of Resuming Banks, and Mr. Benton's Remarks upon it |