Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20)

part in this great work of renovation? To a certain extent the banks

are in partnership with the Government. May not the Government insist that they shall do their part on this great occasion? Shall this effort of ours to readjust our finances and to save this large interest to our country be thwarted by a pretension on the part of the banks that we have not the power to interfere?<...