DATE: February 22, 1838 

TOWN: Augusta 

SOURCE: The Age

 

SILVER CHANGE

SILVER CHANGE -- Where is it? The following is the exact statement of the annual coinage of the silver change since the commencement of Gen. Jackson's administration: 
 

 

25 cents.

10 cents.

5 cents.

1829

--

770,000

1,230,000

1830

--

510,000

1,240,000

1831

389,000

771,350

1,242,700

1832

320,000

522,500

965,000

1833

156,000

485,000

1,370,000

1834

286,000

635,000

1,480,000

1835

1,952,000

1,410,000

2,760,000

1836

472,000

1,190,000

1,900,000

1837

252,400

1,042,000

2,276,000

 

Such is the coinage of silver change in nine years. Now, the question arises, where is all this change? No part of it is exported, we know, for such small pieces are not suited for exportation, and cannot be exported except at a loss. it is not in circulation, we all know, for the whole land is infested and poisoned with filthy federal shin plasters, and scarcely a piece of silver is to be seen. Where is it then? It is SUPPRESSED by a combination of federal politicians and BIDDLE Banks, for the purpose of forcing their shin plasters upon the people, and thereby disgracing and ruining the currency, and thus scourging and afflicting the people until they submit to a new National Bank, owed by American Federalists and British capitalists, to rule and plunder the country. 

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