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Theodore Roosevelt. Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
CHAPTER I
HIS YOUTH: COLONIAL NEW YORK
CHAPTER II
THE OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION: MORRIS IN THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
CHAPTER III
INDEPENDENCE: FORMING THE STATE CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER IV
IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
CHAPTER V
FINANCES: THE TREATY OF PEACE
CHAPTER VI
THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER VII
FIRST STAY IN FRANCE
CHAPTER VIII
LIFE IN PARIS
CHAPTER IX
MISSION TO ENGLAND: RETURN TO PARIS
CHAPTER X
MINISTER TO FRANCE
CHAPTER XI
STAY IN EUROPE
CHAPTER XII
SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE
CHAPTER XIII
THE NORTHERN DISUNION MOVEMENT AMONG THE FEDERALISTS
Footnote
INDEX
American Statesmen
CRITICAL NOTICES
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Theodore Roosevelt
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Before this, and while not yet of age, he had already begun to play a part in public affairs. The colony had been run in debt during the French and Indian wars, and a bill was brought forward in the New York Assembly to provide for this by raising money through the issue of interest-bearing bills of credit. The people, individually, were largely in debt, and hailed the proposal with much satisfaction, on the theory that it would "make money more plenty;" our revolutionary forefathers being unfortunately not much wiser or more honest in their ways of looking at the public finances than we ourselves, in spite of our state repudiators, national greenbackers, and dishonest silver men.
Morris attacked the bill very forcibly, and with good effect, opposing any issue of paper money, which could bring no absolute relief, but merely a worse catastrophe of bankruptcy in the end; he pointed out that it was nothing but a mischievous pretense for putting off the date of a payment that would have to be met anyhow, and that ought rather to be met at once with honest money gathered from the resources of the province. He showed the bad effects such a system of artificial credit would have on private individuals, the farmers and tradesmen, by encouraging them to speculate and go deeper into debt; and he criticised unsparingly the attitude of the majority of his fellow-citizens in wishing such a measure of relief, not only for their short-sighted folly, but also for their criminal and selfish dishonesty in trying to procure a temporary benefit for themselves at the lasting expense of the community; finally he strongly advised them to bear with patience small evils in the present rather than to remedy them by inflicting infinitely greater ones on themselves and their descendants in the future.
