The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... we might as well have been at war . " Life has been insecure , property unprotected , and trade impossible , except at a risk of loss which prudent men cannot be expected to incur . Important contracts , involving large expenditures ...
... we might as well have been at war . " Life has been insecure , property unprotected , and trade impossible , except at a risk of loss which prudent men cannot be expected to incur . Important contracts , involving large expenditures ...
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We have yet scarcely recovered from the habits of extravagant expenditure produced by our overflowing treasury ... The financial reverses which we have since experienced ought to teach us all to scrutinize our expenditures with the ...
We have yet scarcely recovered from the habits of extravagant expenditure produced by our overflowing treasury ... The financial reverses which we have since experienced ought to teach us all to scrutinize our expenditures with the ...
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The public expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1859 , amounted to eighty - three million seven hundred and fifty - one thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty - seven cents , ( $ 83,751,511 57. ) ...
The public expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1859 , amounted to eighty - three million seven hundred and fifty - one thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty - seven cents , ( $ 83,751,511 57. ) ...
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... sum of sixty - three million three hun ired and twenty - eight thousand three hundred and seven dollars and forty - five centa ( 258,328,307 45 ) for the estimated ordinary expenditures during the fecal year ending 30th June , 1861.
... sum of sixty - three million three hun ired and twenty - eight thousand three hundred and seven dollars and forty - five centa ( 258,328,307 45 ) for the estimated ordinary expenditures during the fecal year ending 30th June , 1861.
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It will appear from the report of the Secretary of War that the army expenditures have been materially reduced by a system of rigid . economy , which , in his opinion , offers every guarantee that the reduc- tion will be permanent .
It will appear from the report of the Secretary of War that the army expenditures have been materially reduced by a system of rigid . economy , which , in his opinion , offers every guarantee that the reduc- tion will be permanent .
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| Title | The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
| Author | United States. President |
| Published | 1860 |
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