Excerpt from The Conspiracy Against Silver, or a Plea for Bi-Metallism in the United States

It seems almost incredible that any intelligent body of men can be found in the United States who are willing to join in a conspiracy against the business interests of this nation; and yet one cannot review the history of the past few years, nor listen to the assertions of the monometallists, without coming to just that conclusion. I say assertions - for the history of the past seven years has proven every statement made by the gold men in regard to silver to be false; and yet the old war cry, Down with the silver dollar, is kept up by this gold party with a persistence worthy of a better cause. The world has looked on while nation has plundered nation; cities have fallen and temples have been plundered by rapacious rulers that the glory of their own kingdoms might be advanced but where on the face of the earth was there ever a meaner sight than that of a monarch plundering his own kingdom, destroying his own subjects, that he might revel amid his golden treasures, while his subjects starved for bread! What, then, are we to think of a set of men who for the purpose of their own aggrandizement would impoverish a nation by destroying one-half of its te sources?

No nation under the shining sun has a fairer future than these United States of America, whose shores are bathed by two mighty oceans, whose climate has every varying change, from the tropics to the poles; whose mountains are teeming with gold and silver; whose rivers flow through fertile valleys, and whose plains are outstretched to the rains of heaven, yielding each year their increase in a golden harvest, sufficient to feed the world. Here is a land so fair that to its hospitable shores are coming in unnumbered thousands the oppressed of other lands. Here, under the ample folds of the American banner of Liberty, shall flourish the most prosperous nation that the sun has ever shone upon in its circuit of the globe. Free andindependent - before us lie the grandest opportunities that ever came to any people in the history of time. We threw off the shackles of England in the war of the American revolution. We have cleared our shores of the tyranny of Spain. We have by peaceful purchase absorbed an empire from our old friends and allies, the French. We have encroached upon ancient Mexico and conquered a kingdom from her. We have blot ted out the conspiracy of a great rebellion, and though still in our youth, we are the richest nation upon the earth.

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