February 9, 2013     Permalink Tweet: The new bonds ...: click here Submitted by William Finnerty

"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated ("to see as having been rejected by God and without hope of salvation"). I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unencumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life"