THE
BY
HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY.
Author of “Cæsar’s 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.
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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 people’s 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 332.4’973 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. ________________ 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. |