The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]

16865 Not un-man, my Estlin, but all-men

16866 ching

16867 as [Image] in the 4th

16868 tone

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16869 To respect the vegetal powers

16870 Or "life however small" (Hindoustani).

16871 Make him of wood with steel springs".

16872 [Image] to act that, training the child as

16873 [Image] shih, in the 1st tone.

16874 Père Henri Jacques still

16875 speaks with the sennin on Rokku,

16876 "These people" said Mr Tcheou "should

16877 be like brothers. They read the same books."

16878 meaning chinese and japanese.

16879 Marse Adams done tol' 'em.

16880 The Major done told 'em

16881 having a First Folio (Shx) in his lock-box

16882 could afford waiting to see it.

16883 "Every ... etc ...

16884 downright corruption". "To the consumer".

16885 Waal, they bust the abundance

16886 and had to pay Europe,

16887 an' Anatole tol' 'em:

16888 "no export? No need to make war."

16889 Ile des Pinqouins,

16890 So that Perry "opened" Japan.

16891 Use of foreign coin until 1819.

16892 Exception Spanish milled dollars,

16893 every dealer occupied in exporting them, page 446

16894 their exclusion an unconstitutional fraud ...

16895 A currency of intrinsic value FOR WHICH
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16896 They paid interest to NOBODY

16897 page 446

16898 column two

16899 ("Thirty Years", Benton)

16900 Is suppressed in favour of fluctuation,

16901 this country a thoroughfare.

16902 OBEUNT 1826, July 4.

16903 Not battlements, but that the land go to the settlers,

16904 Tariff! Monsieur de Tocqueville

16905 may pass in Europe for American history.

16906 Macon, Guilford. "Renewal has failed to achieve that end.

16907 In England, salt tax overthrown.

16908 Andy vetoed the Maysville Road bill ...

16909 unconvertable paper ...

16910 mines now yielding ...

16911 Prospects, as Peru, now ½ million per annum

16912 and what is still better, have exports.

16913 Geryon's prize pup, Nicholas Biddle.

16914 Mr Benton then proposed an amendment:

16915 on imported indigo 25 cents toward

16916 producing a home supply in a valuable staple,

16917 First planted in Carolinas, in or about 1740

16918 encouraged by George, Number 2,

16919 at outbreak of revolution over one million pounds,

16920 Britain then turned to India and the Carolinas' product

16921 declined.

16922 1814: 40 thousand.

16923 Our manufacturers seek it, now seek it, abroad

16924 and pay ready money at

16925 two fifty per pound.

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16926 You cannot carry cloth without indigo,

16927 Cotton, woolen, importation already 2 million a year.

16928 And yet the South HAD four staples

16929 (Sardegna 1954, queery)

16930 Rice, cotton, indigo and tobacco,

16931 Has exported for 800 million,

16932 in value to ½ the gold coined in Mexico

16933 from Cortez' time until now.

16934 The tariff of 1816 murdered indigo.

16935 Freemen do not look upward for bounties.

16936 Freeholds, Mirza Mohammed on the persian Abbas' authority

16937 "for production of barley, rice, cotton

16938 free of tax or of any contribution whatsodam."

16939 July 8, 1823.

16940 Jackson 183. to 83 for Mr Adams

16941 no jealousy in the North at that time.

16942 Stay laws, stop laws, replevin.

16943 And he has abolished the national debt.

16944 Did not care for relieving one part of the country

16945 by taxing another,

16946 And New Orleans occurred in 1815, Monsieur de Tocqueville

16947 may pass in Europe for American history

16948 in a foreign tongue. Guilford

16949 Made Yorktown possible. In 1828 Macon retired.

16950 Used plough and hoe until he was sixty

16951

16952 And to receive all guests in his house,

16953 Drew a knife to defend Mr. Randolph.

16954 Unnecessary duration of which (i.e. DEBT)

16955 is incompatible with real independence,

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16956 Counteract profligacy public and private which

16957 profuse outpouring is apt to engender.

16958 Confirmed Martin Van Buren, Jas Hamilton son of

16959 the late General Hamilton, Ingham, Berrien, Barry.

16960 For defence, not for conquest,

16961 direct trade with the West Indies

16962 (124)

16963 And at the foundation of the northwestern states

16964 Nathan Dane drew it, excluding servitude

16965 Save it were by the will of the serving.

16966 ORDINANCE

16967 passed not by the North alone.

16968 Repeal of the salt tax

16969 And has already been shown by A. J's first message ...

16970 then vetoed the Maysville Road.

16971 To pull down, insufficient.

16972 Willing to see a currency of hard money

16973 (under circumstance AT that time)

16974 as France since the time of mandats and assignats.

16975 Filled France with metals,

16976 having neither mines in her land, nor yet exports

16977 Which command others' specie.

16978 Ours yield half a million per annum,

16979 Our mines do,

16980 and above mines we have exports.

16981 His reference to

16982 Parnells, Humes, Ellices, Wm. Pultneys

16983 Was laid on the table

16984 but printed.

16985 "Was now acting as pawn-broker

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16986 on system entirely contrary to institution's intention".

16987 Said Mr Hume (Joseph)

16988 "Privileges" sd/ Ellice

16989 "which belonged to no other contraption".

16990 Mr Benton proceeding: American

16991 part of the stockholders, I would not reply to foreign

16992 complaints.

16993 Must have known this. They

16994 have laid up real estate of three million ...

16995 peculiar privileges enabled them to make profits

16996 stock-holders ought to be grateful

16997 at 46 in the hundred.

16998 SCIRE FACIAS

16999 institution too great and too powerful,

17000 The Vice President directed that Mr Benton proceed.

17001 Direct power prodigious ... boundless emissions,

17002 To whom is this power granted?

17003 in a remote corner, a company.

17004 By whom directed?

17005 By seven, by four, none by the people elected

17006 Nor responsible to them.

17007 Encroaching on power of States,

17008 monopoly absolute.

17009 Gt Britain in '95, had been noted:

17010 "Wish of the Court of Directors"

17011 Political as well as pecuniary. Such

17012 a bank tends to subjugate government;

17013 It tends to collusions,

17014 to borrow 50 and pay back one hundred,

17015 it tends to create public DEBT.

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17016 1694: Loan One Million 200,000.

17017 Interest 80,000, Expenses 4.

17018 GERM, nucleus, and is now 900 Million.

17019 It tends to beget and prolong useless wars;

17020 aggravate inequalities; make and break fortunes.

17021 "To carry on trade of banking

17022 upon the revenues,

17023 and in the name of the

17024 United States;

17025 to pay revenues to the

17026 Government

17027 in its own (the bank's own) notes of promise. To

17028 Hold United States moneys

17029 in deposit, without making compensation;

17030 To discredit other banks and disparage 'em; to

17031 hold real estate, and retain a

17032 body of tenantry; To

17033 set branches in States without their consent or approval;

17034 to be exempt from liability if they fail;

17035 To have the U. S. for a partner, and to have partners

17036 outside this country;

17037 To be exempt from the regular administration of Justice,

17038 and to have all this in

17039 Monopoly.

17040 Yeas:

17041 Barnard, Benton, to 20.

17042 Nays: 23 Webster, Wil-

17043 ley

17044 That it failed to produce a uniform currency,

17045 Issued illegal and vicious paper

17046 "payable at Philadelphy"
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17047 tho' usually issued by remote and inaccessible branches

17048 and so made into a local currency pro

17049 tected by distance

17050 AND, being of small denominations,

17051 lingered in the hands of labouring people

17052 until through "wear and tear" it

17053 became a large item of gain

17054 (for the Bank).

17055 It was invented by a scotch banker in Aberdeen

17056 who issued his notes on London in England

17057 and always of small denominations

17058 So that no one wd- take them there for redemption.

17059 Mr Benton asked leave ...

17060 joint in character

17061 against these orders as

17062 currency ...

17063 "Are they signed by the president?

17064 They are not.

17065 Are they under corporate seal?

17066 Are they drawn in the name of the body?

17067 Are they subject, as credit, to time and amount?

17068 They may exceed 60 days.

17069 And no Treasury supervision.

17070 Has the holder the right to sue?

17071 No Sir, but he is allowed to go,

17072 at his own charge to Philadelphia, at his own cost

17073 And as for the charter?

17074 Seven violations,

17075 15 abuses."

17076 These Mr Clayton read to the house, not Polk,

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17077 Mr Clayton,

17078 from a narrow strip of paper, rolled round his finger

17079 so that the writing shd not be seen,

17080 He not having had leisure to copy and amplify.

17081 [Image] And

17082 fifty

17083 [Image] 2

17084 weeks

17085 [Image] in

17086 4

17087 [Image] seasons
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LXXXIX

17088 To know the histories [Image]

17089 to know good from evil

17090 [Image]
17091 And know whom to trust.

17092 Ching Hao.

17093 Chi crescerà

17094 (Paradiso)

17095 "of societies" said Emanuel Swedenborg.

17096 Mr Jefferson lining up for Louis Philippe,

17097 a fact which shd have been known to

17098 M. de Tocqueville.

17099 Privilege to serve with King and Macon

17100 & John Taylor of Caroline.

17101 Entangling alliance with none,

17102 would be from their cultivation,

17103 That is to say: revenue from the waste lands would be.

17104 Freedom not favoured by tenantry,

17105 compare as above Abbas Mirza

17106 "wheat cotton, barley" July 1823.

17107 As to whether law cd/ be abolished by Indian treaty ...

17108 to which the "enlightened classes" had sunk.

17109 Macon mentioned hillsides for grave yards.

17110 Mr Webster erroneous.

17111 Obit Picabia 2. Dec. '53
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17112 And paper cd/ be left to the states.

17113 Filled France with precious metals

17114 when England with her overgrown bank ...

17115 and France had no mines for these metals. (187)

17116 Public debt increased (England) 400 million.

17117 Debt born of the Bank of England.

17118 by paper, when the Bank, on its own declaration,

17119 had not a shilling.

17120 Profuse issues,

17121 Sudden contractions.

17122 By power of "construction"

17123 CONstrued.

17124 Branch forced on Alabama,

17125 trade in bills Ersatz for products (199)

17126 Hence WAR, 30 years later.

17127 Prototype in Threadneedle St. failed ... overtrading.

17128 Our OWN money lent 'em and WE

17129 paid one and one half million interest.

17130 and more serious: the POlitical aspect.

17131 As against its hug as well as its blow,

17132 I speak of Sir William Pulteney.

17133 Name for name, king for king

17134 [Image] wang

17135 [Image] wang

17136 Foreigners own 7 million

17137 usury at 46 in violation,

17138 if beneficial, why not several?
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17139 Adams match for ½ the House till the last,

17140 Randolph scourge of corruption.

17141 "An advantage, Mr Van Buren".

17142 (Aukland at Talleyrand's)

17143 2 buffer states and 3 dynasties.

17144 Ca'our, tessitore.

17145 Auctor: Good God you don't mean they're worse than the

17146 other gang?

17147 Borah: "Eh ... e ... No,

17148 I ... eh ... can't say that e ... exactly."

17149 "Borrowing its own

17150 (the Nation's own)

17151 money".

17152 Said Randolph of Roanoke,

17153 "And paying interest."

17154 Tariff promoted sectional feeling.

17155 Excessive issues, all on public deposits.

17156 Treasury wd/ pay one hundred Cents on the $

17157 for what cd/ be had for odd 60.

17158 As Indian silver in our time

17159 21 but the suckers paid 75.

17160 Catron (I think it was) had shown horse-sense.

17161 If our government must
17162 [Image] sell monopolies!

17163 sd/ Andy Jackson

17164 70 million,

17165 mehercule ventum!

17166 with bowie knives

17167 pre- not ex-officio.

17168 Do our cottons sold in Canton & Calcutty
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17169 need such protection at home?

17170 And do not tax salt, said Aurelian.

17171 Mr Taney.

17172 Burr did his job 20 years late.

17173 Monsieur Vebbstair voulait lézarder.

17174 Ut moveat, ut doceat, ut dilectet

17175 & J. Q. A. objecting to slavery

17176 Roman law 2/3rds hogswoggled by same

17177 Old John on funding, old John, vide infra, quite a way,

17178 on depreciation,

17179 or on being mercantile,

17180 "And if the bills be bottomed ..." sd/ Mr Jefferson

17181 loc. cit to Crawford 1816

17182 From our own mines, metal

17183 1824: 5,000 N. Carolina

17184 1833: 868,000 (six states)

17185 and in '34 presumably will be 2 millyum

17186 and a greater source is our foreign commerce.

17187 From Napoleon Consul "to this day '34"

17188 have been specie payments.

17189 Mr Hamilton set 15 to one, 15 silver one gold,

17190 when in Spain, Portugal it was sixteen,

17191 From Natchez and N'Yoleans: doubloons

17192 and to suppose metal will stay with us when the exporter

17193 can gain one buck on every 15 carried out ...

17194 doubloons, guineas, half-Joes

17195 and, to depart from the great senator's most

17196 courteous language,

17197 6 suspensions till 1819,

17198 exclusion of foreign coin part of the system:

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17199 a currency (foreign coin was) for which they paid tribute to

17200 no one."

17201 OU TIS

17202 Nothing in course of exchanges to

17203 carry specie from Atlantic States to the West

17204 Page refs/ to "Thirty Years View"

17205 and as for the Adamses, Brooks and Henry,

17206 they went back to their grandfather, dratt 'em,

17207 and not back to old John.

17208 Under heading DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES EXPORTED $

17209 TWO MILLION oh five eight four seven four

17210 ... the highest and most delicate sovreignty ...

17211 tho charter forbade 'em dealin in coin ...

17212 POWER vested not in one, but in 3 parts of government.

17213 Every city protect its own commerce

17214 Gold: pontifex; silver wangled;

17215 Bronze was to certain cities,

17216 vid Mommsen

17217 And sovreignty in the power to issue.

17218 Benton's when? when there was metal.

17219 Benton's why: no interest to be paid.

17220 The Government ceases to be independent

17221 when currency is at will of a company.

17222 page 450.1

17223 All property is at their mercy.

17224 "I have a friend" said Voltaire.

17225 Drove out not gods, but the Emperor, Imperator.

17226 remarked Del Mar:

17227 "ratios in Rome and in the Orient."

17228 Government wanted "of deposit, not circulation".

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17229 [Image] i4
17230 Without historic black-out

17231 they cannot maintain perpetual wars.

17232 Taney ('34) showed an increase

17233 in all branches of revenue

17234 Benton b. 1782, d. 1858.

17235 "How often had they been told trade was paralyzed

17236 & ships idle?

17237 "Hid the books but cd/ not hide weekly statements."

17238 "In specie and without interest.

17239 Against which such a bank is a nuisance."

17240 16 to 1 for above 300 years in the Spanish dominions.

17241 Against Biddle one million and some chicken feed

17242 for which no vouchers are found.

17243 Levari facias. Louis Philippe suggested that

17244 Jackson stand firm

17245 and not sugar his language.

17246 Public debt was extinguished. 1834.
17247 [Image] ho2
17248 [Image] pi4-5
17249 [Image] yüeh4-5
17250 [Image] li4
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17251 This quotation is not from Mr Webster.

17252 Clay opposed mints in New Orleans and North Carolina.

17253 The Civil War rooted in tariff.

17254 Philadelphia did not diffuse,

17255 France had ten mints, and in Mexico there are 8,

17256 Every citizen now more or less cheated.

17257 Mr B. said he had but two bank-notes

17258 both of them counterfeit.

17259 French currency had stood two revolutions, one conquest,

17260 20 millions entered that country,

17261 no interest was paid for its use.

17262 Land not safe against "issue"

17263 Crops not safe against "issue"

17264 Sovreignty is in the right over coinage.

17265 "All that it (the Bank) creates out of nothing."

17266 600 banks to be broken,

17267 Fictitious woe, and the Senate's organized sorrow.

17268 "My fellow slave-holder"

17269 sd/ Mr Randolph

17270 (masnatosque liberavit)

17271 "Ef my bull-dog" said Mr Bishop

17272 to a co-detenuto "had a face like yours, hang'd if

17273 I wouldn't shave his arse and make him walk backwards."

17274 And in the time of Mr Randolph, Mr Benton, Mr Van Buren

17275 he, Andy Jackson

17276 POPULUM AEDIFICAVIT

17277 which might end this canto, and rhyme with

17278 Sigismundo.

17279 Commander Rogers observed that the sea was sprinkled with

17280 fragments of West India fruit

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17281 and followed that vestige.

17282 Giles talked and listened,

17283 more listened, and did not read.

17284 Young Jessie did not forward dispatches

17285 so Frémont proceeded toward the North West and

17286 we ultimately embraced Californy

17287 The Collingwood manned 80 guns.

17288 "Those who wish to talk

17289 May leave now" said Rossini,

17290 "Madame Bileau is going to play."

17291 "Trade,

17292 trade,

17293 trade!"

17294 Sang Lanier.

17295 Van Buren already in '37 unsmearing Talleyrand.

17296 And the elderly Aida, then a girl of 16, in the '90 s,

17297 visiting some very stiff friends in New England

17298 giggled (and thereby provoked sour expressions)

17299 when some children crossed the front lawn with

17300 a bottle of water strung on a string between them

17301 and chanting:

17302 "Martin

17303 Van Buren, a bottle of urine".

17304 Sagetrieb, or the

17305 oral tradition.

17306 "Ten men", said Ubaldo, "who will charge a nest of machine

17307 guns

17308 for one who will put his name on chit."

17309 "No dog, no goat."

17310 said Pumpelly.

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17311 Said Bonaparte: Imagination.

17312 220 riflemen and one piece of artillery

17313 "To environ us" said Mr Dix.

17314 "The irish are devout, moral, industrious"

17315 he even said: sober.

17316 Kit Carson sea-sick.

17317 Ciudad de los Angeles.

17318 That g sounded as h.

17319 3 days with no food but rosebuds,

17320 Che tolgo lo stato.

17321 Don Jesus broke his parole.

17322 Guadalupe ('48) Hidalgo.

17323 Out of von Humboldt: Agassiz, Del Mar and Frobenius

17324 The wrong way about it: despair.

17325 (I think that is in Benton)

17326 Randolph of Roanoke: Charlotte Court House, '32,

17327 Henry's passion: fiddling, dancing and pleasantry

17328 (Patrick Henry)

17329 "We ought not to have turned you out."

17330 said some old crump to Van Buren

17331 "Great blackguard from Tennessee, by name of Jackson."

17332 "No auction of slaves here in the Capital."

17333

17334 Slave labour is very expensive.

17335 But for Price, Sloat might damn well have lost it.

17336 Quam parva sapientia regitur

17337 [Image]
17338 Macauley somewhat extravagant in conclusions,

17339 Palmerston never expressing what he did not believe

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17340 "was pleased 25 years later to find him

17341 at the head of the government."

17342 Jury from the vicinage.

17343 And Disraeli sold the brit fools down the river.

17344 It was a Tory not a Liberal who gave up the right of search.

17345 Galileo from Mang [Image] tzu

17346 caliginem vespertinam
17347

17348 "And here are Caleb Johnson and two others

17349 as demure" (said T.H.B.) "as three whores at a christening."

17350 That Calhoun called him a quadruped.

17351 Firm taste for good company

17352 evinced by both Benton and Mr Van Buren,

17353 and men even in our time (survivals)

17354 as Domvile and degli Uberti

17355 "His agreeable niece, la Duchesse de Dino."

17356 Betrayed Mihailovitch, assassinated Henriot and Gentile

17357 "China, the longest, and with the lowest per cent

17358 of burocracy.

17359 "200 years" said the Emperor "and no trouble."

17360 Benton: no trouble, no treaty.

17361 "And mark me," wrote Cambreling,

17362 "if S/ don't default in four years

17363 "I'll swallow the Treasury."

17364 Tazewell

17365 wd/ see more fun pitching quoits than

17366 standing round the Court of St James.

17367 "Of great suavity and gentleness of deportment,

17368 Mr Van Buren"

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17369 An experiment on his nerves was resolved on,

17370 Had Crab such crystal, winter were as a day.

17371 You cannot make mariners out of slaves

17372 and the mud, mud, said Guinicelli

17373 Mr Tyler

17374 i [Image]

17375 jin [Image]
17376 "even if an independent press cd/ be found to

17377 attempt it"