Excerpt from Brownson's Quarterly Review, Vol. 7 The' enlightened and independent Governor of Virginia, Henry A. Wise, has added to his claims on our respect by his strenuous opposition to dangerous theories on free trade in money, which were likely to receive support from certain members of the legislature. On the plea that the existing laws against usury were detrimental to the public interests, it was contemplated to abolish them, or at least to relax their force, by allowing higher premiums on the loan of money. The Governor felt it to be his duty to forewarn the Assembly against an experiment which, in other States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.