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increasing. But what good will it do us if it is not used, 

 as it will not be until money has a value that cannot be 

 questioned? You cannot make confidence in capital come 

 back while you unsettle the very foundation of its value. 

 Congress can no more make money a value when it has no 

 value, than it can make regiments of pasteboard into fighting 

 men. One idea is as absurd as the other. We are going to 

 have an easy time now, if we can only preserve the credit of 

 the country; and to do this no other course remains but to 

 adopt an unchanging standard of values. 



