Note 1 — Chapter V · How the People on the Island and Elsewhere Learned Wisdom.

“To my mind, the great and immediate need of the day is the issuance of more legal-tender notes, in order to impair the confidence in them to an extent as to cause the owners of them to desire to exchange them for other kinds of property, or man’s wants—not simply to loan out on short or long date paper, with fire-proof security, at low or high rates of interest, which can now be done to any extent required—but absolutely part with them for other kinds of property.”—Views of Enoch Ensley, of Memphis, Tennessee, on the National Finances, Memphis, September, 1875.