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CONTENTS

Foreword by Lawrence H. White

PART ONE

The Doctrine of Equal Rights

True Functions of Government

The Reserved Rights of the People

Objects of the Evening Post

Reply to the Charge of Lunacy

The Legislation of Congress

Religious Intolerance

Direct Taxation

The Course of the Evening Post

Chief Justice Marshall

Prefatory Remarks

The Sister Doctrines

The True Theory of Taxation

Strict Construction

Legislative Indemnity for Losses from Mobs

The Despotism of the Majority

Morals of Legislation

The Morals of Politics

PART TWO

Separation of Bank and State

Bank of United States

Small Note Circulation

The Monopoly Banking System

Uncurrent Bank Notes

Fancy Cities

Causes of Financial Distress

Why Is Flour So Dear?

Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents

Strictures on the Late Message

The Value of Money

The Way to Cheapen Flour

The Money Market and Nicholas Biddle

The Pressure—the Cause of It—and the Remedy

Connexion of State with Banking

The Crisis

The Bankrupt Banks

What We Must Do, and What We Must Not

“The Foresight of Individual Enterprise”

The Safety Fund Bubble

Separation of Bank and State

The Remedy for Broken Banks

“Blest Paper Credit”

Questions and Answers

The True and Natural System

The Bugbear of the Bank Democrats

Bank and State

Theory and Practice

Separation of Bank and State

“Specie Basis”

The Natural System

The Credit System and the Aristocracy

The Divorce of Politicks and Banking

PART THREE

Abolition Insolence

Riot at the Chatham-Street Chapel

Governor McDuffie’s Message

The Abolitionists

Reward for Arthur Tappan

The Anti-Slavery Society

Abolitionists

Slavery No Evil

Progress of Fanaticism

An Argument Against Abolition Refuted

Commencement of the Administration of Martin Van Buren

The Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point

“Abolition Insolence”

PART FOUR

The Division of Political Classes

Despotism of Andrew Jackson

The Division of Parties

Rich and Poor

The Street of the Palaces

American Nobility

The Inequality of Human Condition

A Bad Beginning

The Whig Embassy to Washington, and Its Result

Right Views Among the Right Sort of People

Newspaper Nominations

Foreign “Paupers”

PART FIVE

The Principles of Free Trade

Monopolies: I

“A Little Free-Trade Crazy”

Asylum for Insane Paupers

Monopolies: II

Revolutionary Pensioners

Joint-Stock Partnership Law

The Ferry Monopoly

Free Trade Post Office

Stock Gambling

Weighmaster General

State Prison Monopoly

Corporation Property

Regulation of Coal

Free Ferries and an Agrarian Law

Thanksgiving Day

Municipal Docks

Associated Effort

The Coal Question

The Corporation Question

Free Trade Weights and Measures

Associated Effort

Sale of Publick Lands

Manacles Instead of Gyves

The Meaning of Free Trade

Gambling Laws

Free Trade Post Office

Free Trade, Taxes, and Subsidies

Meek and Gentle with These Butchers

The Cause of High Prices, and the Rights of Combination

Omnipotence of the Legislature

PART SIX

Literary Property

Rights of Authors

The Rights of Authors

Right of Property in the Fruits of Intellectual Labour

Index

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