...driven from circulation it was by the operation of the legal-tender quality given to paper:\ money, and not because the money was paper ; but as this...became a question of individual morals rather than 1 Life and Works, x., 375. of finance, and there were examples of such rare integrity as men declining...

...1Acts and Res., Prov. Mass. Bay, vol. 3, p. 544. 3 History of Massachusetts (Ed. 1795), vol. 2, p. 395, "I am old enough to have seen a paper currency annihilated...supplying every necessity and every convenience." The life and works of John Adams, vol. 10, p. 376. then in circulation, or to the postponement of the time...