CONFEDERATE PAPER WORKS ON LINE

"The following scarce works on the paper money of the Confederacy recently were digitized as part of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) project, "Documenting the American South":

"Cato" on Constitutional "Money" and Legal Tender. In Twelve Numbers from the Charleston Mercury" (1862):

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/witherst/witherst.html

"Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance & Currency Addressed to the President of the Confederate States" (1864):

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/greend/green.html

"Remarks on the Manufacture of Bank Notes, and Other Promises to Pay. Addressed to the Bankers of the Southern Confederacy" (1864):

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/banknote/banknote.html

"[Open Letter to the Banks Concerning the Act of Congress to Reduce the Currency]" (1864):

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/treasury/treasury.html

Quoting from "Remarks", p5:

"It was in the midst of our grand struggle for independence that Franklin found time, from his lightning-catching, mail-carrying, diplomatizing and printing, to engrave, en amateur, a set, or several sets, of plates for the Continental money; and his work, much of which is still in existence, shows nothing more than the coarse, ill-drawn practice of the time, easily and frequently counterfeited, lessening in such proportion the value of what was legally issued."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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