...manufacturing, mineral, and mechanical occupations have largely partaken of the general prosperity. We have possessed all the elements of material wealth...abundance, and yet, notwithstanding all these advantages, OUT country in its monetary interests is at the present moment in a deplorable condition. In the midst...

...manufacturing, mineral, and mechanical occupations, have largely partaken of the general prosperity. We have possessed all the elements of material wealth...advantages, our country, in its monetary interests, is at the present moment in a deplorable condition. In the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all the productions...

...tarded, our private enterprises of different kinds are abandoned, and thousands of useful laborers are thrown out of employment and reduced to want....its monetary interests is in a deplorable condition. So low were our national credit and resources reduced by the Walker tariff for revenue only, that loans...

...President Buchanan In bis message to Congress thus presents the deplorable condition of the country : "We have possessed all the elements of material wealth...advantages, our country In Its monetary interests Is at the present moment In a deplorable condition. In the midst of unsurpassed plenty In all the productions...

...what it would not do for us if the Democratic party would only let it alone." JAMES BUCHANAN (1856). "We have possessed all. the elements of material wealth...yet notwithstanding all these advantages our country is at this moment in a deplorable condition. lu the midst of unsurpassed plenty, in all the productions...

...rewarded the labors of the husbandman" — when "our great staples have commanded high prices," and when we "have possessed all the elements of material wealth in rich abundance" — that our "monetary interests" are in the "deplorable condition" you have so well described ? "Why...