Excerpt from A Letter From the Hon. Elijah Ward: On the First Duty of the Government and People; Comprehensive Review of Our Recent Financial History; Errors of the Administration; Striking Contrast in France; The Law of Financial Panics; Necessity of a Fixed Standard of Value; When and How to Resume; B To understand the nature of the disease which is now preying on the Vitals of the country, we must refer to its origin, and trace its insidious pro gress, reviewing the financial history of the war impartially and in the light now thrown upon it by the decisive lessons of the past. 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.