Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects: pub. during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791. By Pelatiah Webster.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.777
HJ247 .W68
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc0g354r00n
Publisher
Philadelphia, Printed and sold by J. Crukshank, 1791.
Language
English
Date Created
1791
Extent
vii, 504 p. 20 cm.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W28926
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
An essay on the danger of too much circulating cash in a state.--An essay on free trade and finance.--A second essay on free trade and finance.--A third essay on free trade and finance.--A fourth essay on free trade and finance.--A fifth essay on free trade and finance.--Strictures on tender-acts.--An essay or humble attempt to examine and state the true interest of Pennsylvania with respect to the paper currency.--An essay on the economy, policy, and resources of the thirteen states, and the means of their preservation.--A dissertation on the nature, authority, and uses of the office of a financier-general.--Remarks on the resolution of council, of the 2d of May, 1781, for raising the exchange to 175 continental dollars for 1 hard.--Strictures on a publication in the Freeman's journal of May 16, 1781, signed Timoleon.--Strictures on two publications in the Freeman's journal of May 30, 1781, signed, Phocion, and Impartial.
Continued.--A dissertation on the political union and Constitution of the thirteen United States.--A sixth essay on free trade and finance.--A seventh essay on free trade and finance.--A plea for poor soldiers.--A review of the principles and arguments of the two foregoing essays.--An essay on the seat of the federal government and the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress over a ten mile district.--Remarks on the address of sixteen members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to their constituents, dated Sept. 29, 1787.--The weaknesses of Brutus exposed.--An essay on credit.--Strictures on the net produce of the taxes of Great-Britain in the year 1784.--An essay on test-acts imposed with penalties.--An essay on the extent and value of our western unlocated lands.--Scales of depreciation of continental money.--A chronological table of remarkable events.

Discovery Information

Subject
Finance—United States
Tariff—United States
Public lands—United States
Money—United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Constitutional law—United States
United States—Politics and government—1783-1809

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File Count
525

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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