Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of debts instead of sneaking about withthis false appearance of legislative knowlijudicial sagacity, and smart lawyer tricks with and exemptions and plantationing acts under the name of homestead bills?. . . If our legislators expected to afford apurgative to the woefully i and inex- pressibly tight times — if tl I re to leg-islate men out of debt, they must of comaware that they could do no such thing, how-ever much credit they expected tothemselves in their quack attempts in this . 1 i-red ion. . . The advantages to be derived from suchlaws are. as we view them, small indeed, while the disadvantages and positive injury aresibly felt and vividly wit upon the growth and prosperity of a country whichenacts them. We car r ad- vantage in destroying our credit abroad, blast-ing our reputation, driving men 1 oulof the territory and presenting an insuperablebar to the ingri in the practici 1 alive tr, rdemain — inevitably lead Ugh lion emption I: in of most of tl 266 HISTORY OF NEBRASKA
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