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Quotation from Hepburn v. Griswold by Supreme Court of the United States
“That the legal tender act prevented these disastrous results, and that the tender clause was necessary to prevent them, I entertain no doubt.”
Hepburn v. Griswold, Dissent of Justice Miller (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Justice Miller, for three dissenters, defends Congress's judgment after describing the Union's financial crisis of 1861-62.
Citation: "That the legal tender act prevented these disastrous results, and that the tender clause was necessary to prevent them, I entertain no doubt." — Supreme Court of the United States, Hepburn v. Griswold, Dissent of Justice Miller (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id hepburn-v-griswold-q5)
Portrait: Mathew Brady, Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government (1860–1865, full version) (1), Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
