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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for France (France) or search for France (France) in all documents.
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How "Cotton" might have been made a real "King."
--The constituent Assembly of France, the National Assembly, and the Convention — the first named of which had the honor of inaugurating, while the two last developed to its full extent the system of assignats — are justly entitled to the credit of having been the worst financh the issue was made being the National domain, that is, the forfeited lands of the church and nobility, worth probably half the sum. At the end of the six years, France was declared to be in a state of bankruptcy, and the whole debt was wiped out to the utter ruin of half the property holders of the nation.
There must have been stupendous imbecility somewhere.
But we doubt very much whether the statesmen of France — if the men who then had the control of her destinies numbered any statesmen among them — would, had they possessed in prodigious quantities an article of merchandize more in demand than any other article whatever — an article which annual