Note 1389 — Chapter X
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Priest: Travels in the United States, 132; and see Haskins, 3.
Otis speaks of the "land jobbing prospectors," and says that "money is the object here [Boston] with all ranks and degrees." (Otis to Harper, April 10, 1807, Morison: Otis, i, 283.)
The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury.... By the God of Heaven, if we go on in this way, our nation will sink into disgrace and slavery." (Tyler to Madison, Jan. 15, 1810, Tyler, i, 235.)