FEBRUARY 20, 1862 – US SENATOR THADDEUS STEVENS SPEAKS ON SENATE FLOOR AGAINST “EXCEPTION CLAUSE” OF GREENBACK ACT

FEBRUARY 20

1862 – US SENATOR THADDEUS STEVENS SPEAKS ON SENATE FLOOR AGAINST “EXCEPTION CLAUSE” OF GREENBACK ACT
“I have a melancholy foreboding that we are about to consummate a cunningly devised scheme, which will carry great injury to all classes of people throughout the Union.”