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The moment that heliei is witliheld, and com- 
pulsive legislative acts are resorted to, to en- '' 
force it upon the community, it will soon bear 
a progressive degraded discount, and at length 
will be blown into the air, Ooid will always 
preserve its general intrinsic value ; and if the 
best of paper was not so much more portable 
and convenient in commercial and other 
transadfions, between man and man, no ad- 
venturer of common sense would touch it. 
A thousand arguments might be adduced, to 
prove ‘ that the cause of the main and funda- 
mental evil which is grad iially overtaking, and 
which will eventually overwhelm this country, 
is an unlimited paper currency ^ which, in as 
many .ditferent ciiannels, both diredfly and 
indireclly, tend to enhance the price of all 
the necessaries of life ; ana it is the ingenuity 
alone displayed by our manujacturers in the 
construction of mills and machinery, which en- 
ables us, for the present, to counteradl its 
baneful -elfedfs, and to maintain our trade 
for manulacfured goods in foreign markets. 
