MEMORIAL TO THE HON. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND &C., AT THEIR SESSION TO BE HOLDEN ON THE LAST MONDAY IN OCTOBER, 1839, THE UNDERSIGNED, FREEMEN OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND-- RESPECTFULLY REPRESENT.

Published by [Cumberland RI, 1839

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Broadside, printed in three columns. 8.5" x 16" with caption title [as issued]. Lightly foxed, Very Good plus. A heartfelt Jacksonian protest against banking institutions during the hard times that followed the Panic of 1837. Rhode Island's banks have "utterly refused payment of all claims presented." Indeed, they have "gone on contracting new debts, and exacting, in some instances, their own claims, in the most strenuous manner." The banks' unilateral refusal is "an unwarrantable assumption of the law-making power," in disregard of the State's elaborate regulatory system. "The policy of extending privileges to this single class of community, the banking class, we think has been extended too far." They have abused their monopoly, granted by the legislature, to issue paper money, and to use "without interest, nearly all the floating capital of our cities and villages." Not in AI, Bartlett, Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker. OCLC locates ten copies under three accession numbers as of May 2025.

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Title
MEMORIAL TO THE HON. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND &C., AT THEIR SESSION TO BE HOLDEN ON THE LAST MONDAY IN OCTOBER, 1839, THE UNDERSIGNED, FREEMEN OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND-- RESPECTFULLY REPRESENT.
Author
[Fenner, James; Aaron White; and others]
Publisher
[Cumberland RI
Publication year
1839
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AMERICANA, BANKING, BROADSIDE

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David M. Lesser specializes in Americana of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Some areas of concentration are listed above. Please call for an appointment to see my stock in person at my office. My web site is available for your perusal at www.lesserbooks.com.

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