 Most unquestionably there is no "legal tender, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins at rates regulated by congress.  The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 331edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1837 - 740 pages
...and silver. Most unquestionably littre is no legal tender, and there can be no legal ten. ¿;r, ii this country, under the authority of this Government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinif i »four ciwn mints, or foreign coins, at rates regulated b\ Congre.«». This is a constitutional... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1860 - 824 pages
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this Government or any other, but gold and silver, cither the coinage of our own mints, or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constitutional... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...was also fully stated by Mr. Webster, when he said, " most unquestionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority...this government or any other, but gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The states... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...or silver, f " Most unquestionably," said Mr. Webster,! "there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this government, or any other, but gold and silver. . . . This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance." He admitted... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 378 pages
...or to displace this." And still more emphatically : " Most unquestionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority...this Government, or any other, but gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 400 pages
...more emphatically : " Most «»• LEGAL TENDER NOTES. 327 questionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this. Government, or any other, fbut gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest... | |
 | 1869 - 1168 pages
...paper money has been quoted, in the Senate of the United States, on the 21st day of December, 1836, expressed the following opinion : Most unquestionably...foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constituticnal principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1872 - 648 pages
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this Government, or any other, but gold and silver, cither the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constitutional... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this government or any other, but gold and silver,—either the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 488 pages
...gold or silver. " Most unquestionably," said Mr. Webster, " there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this government, or any other, but gold and silver. * * This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance." He admitted... | |
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