Excerpt from An Essay on the Resumption of Specie Payments, Compared With an Irredeemable Paper Currency, and the Effects of Our Foreign Indebtedness Upon Commerce, Business, and Money Distribution Concerning the propriety of the ultimate and even speedy resumption of Specie payments, there is scarcely a dissenting voice, either among the people or the Press. Upon one point only has there been unanimity - it is the desirability of specie payments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.