Policy of Finance: A Plan for Returning to Specie Payments Without Financial Revulsion.
Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Establishment, 1869. Third edition? 8vo, original printed rose wrappers, 11 pages. Wrappers show signs of creasing and soiling; some foxing; a good, sound copy. Item #14160
An argument at length from this Detroit resident that export duties on cotton will allow the United States to redeem currency with specie payments; this will also allow for eventual abolition of other duties and ample labor for all, thus bringing social progress in its wake: "Honest industry purifies the life-current of a people, idleness brings in its train, vice, crime and revolution." With a pencil note at the head of the front wrapper, "Governor Reed"--perhaps from the library of Florida's then-governor Harrison Reed. Sabin 70993 (noting an 8-page edition with the Detroit, 1869 imprint and then this 11-page edition; this latter edition is noted as having a "slip"--perhaps errata?--not present here). Small shelfmark label on the front wrapper and a few stray pencil marks on the wrapper.
Price: $75.00