Facts, Failures, and Frauds: Revelations, Financial, Mercantile, Criminal (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The delight experienced by persons of a sensitive humanity at that alteration in the criminal code, by which death was declared too severe a penalty for the crime of forgery, must have been not a little qualified by the increase of dishonesty that has followed the mitigation of the law. While, on the one hand, the dread of that punishment, which, whatever specious argument may be advanced to the contrary, will ever be regarded with the greatest awe by the multitude, has been cancelled from the list of moral obstacles; on the other hand, a variety of circumstances favourable to the most reckless speculation have arisen to remind the world of the old days of the South Sea and the Mississippi speculations, and a generally diffused taste for luxurious living has proved a constant incentive to profuse expenditure. With tempta tions to crime infinitely multiplied, and with impediments reduced to a minimum, it is no wonder that the last twenty years afford materials for one of the darkest pages in the commercial history of this country - that many have arrived at a high art in guilt, while high arts of a more innocent kind have been manifestly on the decline.

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