"While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery." | by: | Horace Greeley (1811-1872) Editor of the New York Tribune, ran against Ulysses Grant for presidency |
Source: | 1872, in reference to the National Bank Act of 1863 |
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