Sir, I have heretofore taken occasion to observe, that the former expenditures of the United States were at a medium rate of twenty millions of dollars annually, for the support of the war.
And are we to restore a vacuum of twenty millions of dollars by an emission of ninety millions?
No matter; we will guess them to be twenty millions.
On the remaining third the people of the Southern country are subject to a tribute--on twenty millions of pounds, at the rate of 17 cents per pound.
It was found that merchandise to the value of one hundred millions of dollars was actually afloat, in vessels amounting in value to twenty millions more.
This object was at last accomplished after a violent agitation throughout the country, at a cost of twenty millions sterling!
Ultimately, as we all know, their efforts were rewarded, by rousing public indignation to such a pitch as to result in the passing of an act of parliament emancipating the slaves in the West Indies, at a cost of twenty millions.
But it was found to be a baseless fear, and the only result of the phantom so conjured up was a payment of twenty millions to the conjurors.
Cape Horn in ships to California, the cost would be more than twenty millions!
Mr. Chalmers, from the returns of the English Mint at the Tower of London, states the quantity of money in England, including Scotland and Ireland, to be twenty millions sterling.
On the nineteenth of August Horace Greeley wrote his famous anti- slavery letter to the President, entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions.
France was losing sheep and oxen at the rate of from fifteen to twenty millions annually.
It was a tremendous proposition we had put forth, for remember this was before the period of the great trustifications, and ten to twenty millionsfigured as the limit of large flotations.
That the insiders of these insurance companies, not one but several of them, have accumulated fortunes in the past few years, of from one to twenty millions, while at the same time premium-rates have advanced and dividends decreased.
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