The question of the continuance of the subtreasury system is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The subtreasury system rejected the last in any form, and as it was believed that no reliance could be placed on the issues of local institutions for the purposes of general circulation it necessarily and unavoidably adopted specie as the exclusive currency for its own use; and this must ever be the case unless one of the other kinds be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But, again, by the subtreasury scheme the revenue is to be collected in specie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

I repeat, then, that by the subtreasury the revenue is to be collected in specie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

No subtreasury bill has yet become a law, though two or three have been considered by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

I have already said that the subtreasury will reduce the quantity of money in circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

Maybe we had the heir to a subtreasury panting to join us and maybe his freckles were his fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Good Old Siwash] Reference

Senate the first subtreasury bill, and that bill provided for ultimately collecting the revenue in specie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

We'll pool issue, and say, we'll make those Federal Oil pikers think we've gnawed a corner off the subtreasury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference

I assert that we have again and again, during this discussion, urged facts and arguments against the subtreasury which they have neither dared to deny nor attempted to answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

While the Whig and Democratic parties differed in regard to a bank, the tariff, distribution, the specie circular and the subtreasury, they agreed on the great slavery question which now agitates the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Joint Debate at Ottawa. Mr. Douglas's Speech] Reference

While the Whig and Democratic parties differed in regard to a bank, the tariff distribution, the specie circular, and the subtreasury, they agreed on the great slavery question which now agitates the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the First Debate with Lincoln] Reference

When the war loan was announced he was the first man at the door of the subtreasury in New York waiting to make payment over the counter of all the money he had been able to collect without business disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4] Reference

Of the subtreasury, then, as contrasted with a national bank for the before-enumerated purposes, I lay down the following propositions, to wit: (1) It will injuriously affect the community by its operation on the circulating medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

After the oath of office had been administered (on the spot where now stands the statue of Washington in front of the subtreasury building), Washington and the other officials withdrew to the Senate-chamber in Federal Hall, where he delivered this address.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. His First Inaugural Address] Reference

The subject heretofore and now to be discussed is the subtreasury scheme of the present administration, as a means of collecting, safe-keeping, transferring, and disbursing, the revenues of the nation, as contrasted with a national bank for the same purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

If it shall, I reply that Mr. Van Buren, in his message recommending the subtreasury, expended nearly a column of that document in an attempt to persuade Congress to provide for the collection of the revenue in specie exclusively; and he concludes with these words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

It was proposed, therefore, that the government should establish a number of subtreasury or money-loaning stations in each state, at which the farmers could borrow money from the government (at two per cent interest), giving as security non-perishable farm produce. \% 552.    From Wordnik.com.  [A School History of the United States] Reference

This volume contains President Van Buren's message recommending the independent treasury or subtreasury, and the discussion of that subject, which terminated in what has been termed "the divorce of the bank and state in the fiscal affairs of the Federal Government," and which.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)] Reference

By the subtreasury the revenue is to be collected and kept in iron boxes until the government wants it for disbursement; thus robbing the people of the use of it, while the government does not itself need it, and while the money is performing no nobler office than that of rusting in iron boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

The United States Bank, of which Nicholas Biddle was the progenitor, had gone completely in 1841, and the United States Treasury with its subtreasury system had come in 1846; but still there were many, many wildcat banks, sufficient in number to make the average exchange-counter broker a walking encyclopedia of solvent and insolvent institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference

"But they arranged to send the gold right out of the subtreasury at San Francisco -- or was it New York?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron] Reference

1841, and the United States Treasury with its subtreasury system had come in 1846; but still there were many, many wildcat banks, sufficient in number to make the average exchange-counter broker a walking encyclopedia of solvent and insolvent institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier] Reference

The subtreasury scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [A School History of the United States] Reference