"Greenback" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And when the debt gigantic which was made To war our fathers till they bit the dust, Matured, our party instinct did invent A method to repudiate the claim By paying greenback printed nice and clean, But which with gold would never be redeemed. Alas! those Yankee soldiers called the bluff And once again encompassed our defeat. While principles unchanging we declare, Yet what, indeed, is it that changeth ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
 Read full book for free!
... Thieves to permit no man to outbid them. Perhaps Mr. Gibney would be satisfied with a fair day's profit without troubling himself to hamper the Forty Thieves and interfere with their combination, and with the words, the king surreptitiously slipped Mr. Gibney a fifty-dollar greenback. ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
Read full book for free!
... the famous "greenback raid" (October 14, 1864), in which a party of Rangers entered a train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Kearneysville, capturing, among other officers, Majors Moore and Ruggles, Federal paymasters, with their funds, Lieutenant ...
— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head
Read full book for free!
... crisp greenback, incognito though it came, indubitably suggested that Mr. Queed was not an entire stranger to the ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
Read full book for free!
... Presidential candidate on the Greenback ticket, but it was kept so quiet that I am not surprised to know that you did not hear ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye
Read full book for free!
... It sees the Polar sea running with warm water, the North Pole maintaining a magnificent perpendicularity, and the Equinoctial Line extended all around the earth, including Hoboken and Hull. It sees its millions of people happy in their golden (greenback and currency) prosperity, and also happy in a full supply of PUNCHINELLO to every family. It sees its favorite Bird of Freedom spread its wings from Maine to Oregon; from Alaska to the Gulf, and it trusts its wings will ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various
Read full book for free!
... accompanied and followed the period of "reconstruction" after the war, and were involved in the payment and adjustment of the national debt, Mr. Cooper appeared as an advocate of the "Greenback" party, and did not seem to realize that this was a complete reversal of his earlier position as a "hard-money" Democrat. I think the clue to this change may be found in his recollection of the war waged by Andrew ...
— Peter Cooper - The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 • Rossiter W. Raymond
Read full book for free!
... them—one day's mail alone bringing letters and postals from twenty-three States and three territories. Some of these letters contained hundreds of names, others represented town, county, and State societies. Many were addressed to the different nominating conventions, Republican, Greenback, Democratic, while the reasons given for desiring to vote, ranged from the simple demand, through all the scale of reasons connected with good government and morality. So highly important a contribution to history did the Chicago Historical Society[62] deem ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
Read full book for free!
... finally gasped. "Greenback's delivery boy is on the line—calling back to see where we are. Says he's under a table in ...
— Arm of the Law • Harry Harrison
Read full book for free! |
