Had the Almighty manifested His displeasure by semding pestilence and famine to sweep the land.i had earthquakes swallowed up our great manufacturing and commercial centers. or had war devastated our fields did tilled the land with widows. orphans. and destitutions? No. Our crops of grain. tobacco. and cotton were far above the average. andin nnaIlud demand . our miners had been industriously at woak. d the mines. whether of the precious or the useful metals. had yielded ample returns for the labor expended on them. or manufacturing productions in no nine successive months had ver equa led those of the first threequarters of lest year. our exports were increasing in an unprecedented ratio. and tie steadily increasing vol mne of immigration attested the gnequaled prosperity of the United States. and ec aciete wat asuffering that pervade the land to none of the causes I have indicated. To find their source we muist study the history of our financial legislation since the close of the war in 1865. And here we will find an ample cause for the commercial revulsion that is costing us so many thousands of millions of dollars and blighting the hopes of a genseration.
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