Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts, on the Necessity of Regulating the Currency of the Country: Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 6, 1864 The House having resumed the consideration of the bill to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States stocks, and to provide for the cir culation and redemption thereof, Mr. Hooper, addressed the House as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.