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In that time he had broken up several grog-shops, by reforming all their customers, and had got, I suppose, not less than five or six hundred persons to sign the pledge. I had, of course, a particular grudge against him. It was an exceedingly warm day, and he was uncommonly thirsty. He was reading the paper, and came across the 'Sub-Treasury' advertisement. "'Ha! ha!
He was tried before the United States Circuit Court, Judge McAlister presiding, for a violation of the sub-Treasury Act, but was acquitted.
You'll make your fortune out of this, Graves." "Do you think so?" the pleased liquor-seller responded, with a broad smile of satisfaction. "I've not the least doubt of it," Joe, or Joseph Bancroft, said, "I had half resolved to join the temperance society this day. But your 'Sub-Treasury' has shaken my resolution.
The demonstrations in the lower part of the city excited the greatest anxiety about the Government buildings in that section the Custom House and Sub-treasury were tempting prizes to the rioters.
It must be some entirely new name, which, at the same time, will hit a popular idea. As 'Tariff, or 'Compromise." "I see now. Well, can't you hammer out something?" "I must try. Let me see. How will 'Sub-Treasury' do?" "Capital! 'Graves' Sub-Treasury' will be just the thing.
At the last call it stood at 144; at the first on Friday, September 24th, 105 was the figure. The ring was believed at this time to hold in gold and in contracts to deliver the same, over $100,000,000, while all the gold in New York outside the United States Sub-Treasury was hardly over $10,000,000. Only the Government could break the corner.
He worked hard at the polls for the Whig ticket, and although his candidate for Governor received a majority of one in Wilkes County, the Whigs were defeated for the legislature. When he returned to the Assembly in 1842 he still found Governor McDonald and the Democrats supporting a central bank and the sub-treasury. They clamored to restore public finances to the old system.
On the day before 'Sub-Treasury' was announced, he came home sober, for the first time in six months. His wife, a beautiful young girl when he married her, but now a thin, pale, heart-broken creature, sat near a window sewing when he entered. But she did not look up.
You and your friends, at first, employed "persuasive means" against "the sub-treasury system." Afterwards, you rallied voters against it. Now, if this fail, will you resort to "the more potent powers of the bayonet?" You promptly and indignantly answer, "No." But, why will you not?
If a man rose up with the power to command such a following, with the ability to keep his plans absolutely secret, with the genius to make plans in which there were no flaws, he could loot Maiden Lane, the Sub-Treasury, Tiffany's, the Metropolitan Museum and get away with it." Mr. Lichtenstein's small eyes glittered. He was visibly excited. And so was Mr. Blicker.
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