ABSTRACT
I consider them-still without the smallest particle of blame-as usurpers in effect of another attribute of sovereignty-the right of coining money, in practising on a vast scale, and with perfect impunity and security, and even universal respect and applause, that sort of act which, in them, is not high treason, but which produces to the actors a profit, and to the rest of the community a loss, superior in degree, but similar in effect and mode of operation, to what is produced by a species [?] of forgery inaptly included in that formidable name.
