GREENBACK CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT NO. 3. THE NATIONAL FINANCES. A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN OF LEGAL TENDER NOTES AND BONDS. SERVICES WHICH THEY RESPECTIVELY RENDERED TO THE GOVERNMENT. KALEIDOSCOPIC PHASES OF OUR FINANCIAL LEGISLATION SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR.

[np: 1876?]. 17, [1] blank pp. Stitched, partly uncut, trimmed a bit unevenly. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. First page and final blank page lightly dustsoiled, interior pages quite clean. Very Good.

The author recounts the history of legal tender notes. The issuance of paper money as legal tender saved the Union and, fortunately, overcame the opposition of the "Money Power." But the government has now robbed the people of "untold millions, to have carried almost to fruition an elaborate scheme to steal from the farmers, the workingmen, the people, their little homes and reduce them to actual beggary...Greenbacks, purposely depreciated, dishonored and impaired in utility though they had fulfilled a noble mission - discharged a grand duty" and "remained almost at par with gold until the Money Power interfered by systematic means and adverse legislation to depreciate them."
He urges the election of Peter Cooper, the Greenback Party's 1876 candidate, as President of the United States, stating that "neither Hayes nor Tilden will stand against the encroachments of the Money Power." Unless Peter Cooper is elected, "nothing short of the favor of a propitious Providence will save us from ruin or revolution." Item #31808

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