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Silver Coinage and Political Attacks In 19th Century Debate
The piece describes bankers and financiers in New York opposing continued silver coinage and threatening demonetization. It mentions plans to separate gold and silver accounts and assign an 85 cent value to silver, challenging the 1790 act making silver dollar legal tender. It also notes a Virginia colored men’s convention address criticizing Republican misrepresentations in Ohio, and a local testimonial endorsing Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Amica Salve for kidney and skin ailments, via J. W. Hightower.
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New York Evening Post
Evening Post
New York
Virginia
Ohio
Mahone
J. M. Norris
Rome
Bucklen
J. W. Hightower