THE

AMERICAN PEOPLES MONEY


BY
HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY.

Author of Cæsars Columns,  The Great Cryptogram,  Dr. Huguet,  Atlantis :  the antediluvian world.

You may fool part of the people all the time, or all the people part of the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln.


When the rubber hit the road and he was given an opportunity, Mr. Donnelly voted for reduction of currency, and voted for radical reconstruction of the United States;  because he cared for the working people so much that he voted for the reorganization of the United States along dictatorial lines;  he spends several pages in this here book, writing about the per capita circulation, but carefully avoids mentioning that he, as Representative of the people, voted for the bill which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to destroy greenbacks.  He supported the Wade-Davis Manifesto which even Lincoln disapproved and pocket-vetoed because it aimed at disfranchising the white people of the South.


A volume in the Hyperion reprint series
THE RADICAL TRADITION IN AMERICA
HYPERION PRESS, INC.
Westport, Connecticut

Published in 1896 by Laird & Lee, Publishers, Chicago
Hyperion reprint edition 1976
Library of Congress Catalog Number 75-311
ISBN 0-88355-215-9
Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901.
The American peoples money.

(The Radical tradition in America)
Reprint of the 1895 ed. published by Laird & Lee, Chicago,
which was issued as no. 141 of The Pastime series.
1. Silver question. 2. Money United States History.
I. Title. II. Series:  The Pastime series;  no. 141.
HG556.D68  1975  332.4973  75-311
ISBN 0-88355-215-9		 DONNELLY, Ignatius, 1831-1901

DONNELLY, Ignatius, a Representative from Minnesota;  born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 3, 1831;  attended the public schools;  studied law;  was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Philadelphia;  moved to Minnesota in 1857 and settled in Nininger, Dakota County;  engaged in literary pursuits;  Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 1859-1863;  elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869);  unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress and for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress;  member of the State senate 1874-1878;  resumed the practice of law;  also engaged in literary pursuits;  was nominated by the People's Party in 1892 for Vice President of the United States;  died in Minneapolis, Minn., on January 1, 1901;  interment in Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.

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DONNELLY, Ignatius, author, born in Philadelphia, 3 November 1831.  He was educated in the public schools of his native City, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced.  He went to Minnesota in 1857, was elected lieutenant governor in 1859, and again in 1861, and was then elected to congress as a republican, serving from 7 December 1863, till 3 March 1869. Besides doing journalistic work he has written an "Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare";  "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World" (New York, 1882), in which he attempts to demonstrate that there once existed in the Atlantic ocean, opposite the straits of Gibraltar, a large island, known to the ancients as "Atlantis";  and "Ragnarok" (1883), in which he tries to prove that the deposits of clay, gravel, and decomposed rocks, characteristic of the drift age, were the result of contact between the earth and a comet.