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DOCUMENT 175.
APPEAL TO THE HOUSES OF THE
DIET IN FAVOUR OF THE RESTORATION OF A
METALLIC CURRENCY *
Unless the various Houses of the Diet at the present
session take steps to secure the return of the paper currency
to the bank, and the issue of coin possessing an intrinsic value
in its place, there is danger that the dearness of every thing
will continue to increase more and more, until the country
at last will become utterly exhausted and ready to perish;
which it assuredly will, unless another remedy for its restora
tion be found than a general bankruptcy on all the paper
currency. This bankruptcy, however, stares every man willing
to reflect upon this subject in the face, when he considers
that six dalers in paper are now equivalent to three dalers in
“ plates” in our foreign commerce, and two dalers in “plates”
in our inland traffic; and if the dearness increases they may
finally be equivalent to a single daler in “plates.” What could
then save the country from ruin ? This fearful and terrible con
sequence can only be avoided by restoring specie payments.
Many proposals may be devised and mentioned for forcing down
the high course of exchange, and ’arresting the dearness, but
they are all of little value except the one proposal, the purpose
* Four copies of this memorial are contained on leaves 28–32 in the
volume of “ Riksdagsskrifter ” mentioned in the last document; it has been
published by the author of "Nya Kyrkan,” & c. in part II, p. 72. A copy
of it was also communicated by him to Dr. Immanuel Tafel in 1841, by
whom it was inserted in his “Sammlung von Urkunden betreffend das
Leben und den Character Emanuel Swedenborg’s," part III, p. 70. It is
also contained in the English and American editions of Dr. Tafel’s
“ Documents."
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