 | 1832 - 636 strani
...to establish a regular revenue system, one member exclaimed, "Do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we...money, one quire of which will pay for the whole!" The best, if not the only excuse, for the policy which was pursued, is, perhaps, to be found in the... | |
 | William M. Gouge - 1833 - 414 strani
...to establish a regular revenue system, one member exclaimed, "Do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer, and get a waggon load of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole !"t Our ancestors were lavish of their... | |
 | 1842 - 422 strani
...to establish a regular revenue system, one member exclaimed, " Do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we...of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole !"§ Our ancestors were lavish of their blood, in defence of their rights. If it was through a wish... | |
 | Samuel Breck - 1843 - 136 strani
...liberally supplied. " Who," said a member during a debate upon this subject, " will consent to load his constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon load of money, and pay for the whole with a quire of paper?" And with wagon loads thus cheaply obtained, they carried... | |
 | 1846 - 594 strani
...liberally supplied. " Who," said a member during a debate upon this subject, " will consent to load his constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon load of money, and pay for the whole with a quire of paper ?" And with wagon loads thus cheaply obtained, they carried... | |
 | 1864 - 816 strani
...could relieve them, they still shrank from it. " Do you think, Gentlemen," said a member, " that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we...of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole ? " It was so easy a way of making money that men seemed to be getting into the humor of it. The campaign... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1864 - 502 strani
...member of the Continental Congress once exclaimed in dehate, " Do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon-load of money." It is also reported of a patriotic old lady, that she considered it я shame... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 518 strani
...bend their minds to the necessity. "Do you think, gentlemen," said a member of Congress, " that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon-load of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole ? " It was so easy a way of making money,... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 strani
...their minds to the necessity. " Do you think, gentlemen," said a member of Congress, " that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon-load of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole?" It was so easy a way of making money,... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 400 strani
...paper money. " Who," said a member of the Revolutionary Congress in debate, "will consent to load his constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer and get a wagon-load of money, and pay for the whole with a quire of paper?" (Breck's History of Continental... | |
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Do you think, gentlemen, that I will consent to load my constituents with taxes, when we can send to our printer, and get a wagon load of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole !"§ Our ancestors were lavish of their blood, in defence of their... 
