...system adopted by the Richmond Government was certainly simple enough. Confederate notes, redeemable after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States, were printed in sufficient numbers to meet all demands upon the treasury. To what extent this stuff...

...($60,000), to be well and truly paid, in gold or its equivalent, within six calendar months * See p. 216. after the ratification of a treaty of peace between...the Confederate States and the United States. The condition of this bond is such that the aforesaid party of the first part has this day been captured...

...Section one authorizes the issue of Treasury notes, payable to bearer at the expiration of six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between...the Confederate States and the United States. The notes are not to be of a less denomination than five dollars, to be re-issued at pleasure, to be received...

...Section one authorizes the issue of Treasury notes, payable to bearer at the expiration of six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between...the Confederate States and the United States. The notes are not to be of a less denomination than five dollars to be re-issued at pleasure, to be received...

...form and general aspect like bank notes, promised to pay the bearer the sum named in them "two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America." Being issued by an organization or government of paramount force, "They must be regarded...

...power, and the notes lost all appreciable value. The condition upon which their payment was promised — "after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America" — had become impossible, us It is evident, therefore, that, if their value in lawful...

...and the notes lost all appreciable value. The condition upon which their payment was promised — " after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America "—had become impossible. It is evident, therefore, that, if their value in lawful money...

...that the South had more money than it could use, and even to this day — more than twenty-six years " after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America " — it can be had in some of the unreconstructed parts of the country by the hamper-basketful,...

...and the notes lost all appreciable value. The condition upon which their payment was promised — " after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America " — had become impossible. It is evident, therefore, that, if their value in lawful money...

...are sufficient : Confederate States Treasury notes are not due till six months after the conclusion of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States. When that time comes it will be in season to set off such claims. Again, the United States being entitled...