A Treatise on Currency & Banking

To

TO

CLEMENT C. BIDDLE, ESQ.

AS A MARK OF RESPECT,

DUE TO AN ENLIGHTENED POLITICAL ECONOMIST, AND

AS A TESTIMONIAL OF A FRIENDSHIP,

COMMENCED IN CHILDHOOD, CONTINUED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS, AND STRENGTHENED BY A HARMONY OF OPINION ON MOST OF THE POLITICAL SUBJECTS THAT HAVE OF LATE DIVIDED THE PEOPLE OF THE

UNITED STATES,

AND ESPECIALLY ON THOSE OF

CURRENCY AND BANKING,

THIS WORK IS, WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE

MOST AFFECTIONATE REGARD,

DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.