In a message dated 07/28/2003 12:47:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, fran@ees.eesc.com writes: > Every note I've seen issued by the CS government and > quite a few of those by States has basically the same statement, outside > of the time period and amount to be paid. By Dahleen GlantonTribune national correspondent Published May 27, 2003 Prior to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, institutions printed their own money freely, and in the South, blacks were one of the primary subjects. They are shown on bank notes, currency and bonds issued by banks, hotels and railroads. They are shown planting, picking and hauling cotton and tending cattle. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx See, everybody was making their own money...so what you see on it is not accurate, and certainly nothing to base what you are saying on. I looked at some of the Confederate money around at that time period, and it had the date written in...so... pleassseeee! Carolyn xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > There is an old Rebel saying, that probably every true Southerner has committed to memory: > > >> "Save your confederate money boys >> . . . . The South's gonna rise again." > > And rise it did. Some idea of the poverty and distress to which our people were reduced as a result of the war may be gathered from the fact that the aggregate wealth of Georgia, estimated at the last census before the war, was in round numbers $672,000,000. After forty-five years of struggle and effort, in 1907, the estimated wealth of the state fell short by some $30,000,000 of what it was in 1860. (The War-Time Journal Of A Georgia Girl -Eliza Andrews) The war between-the-states was a Southern tragedy honorably overcome. Never in all history, have people recovered so completely from overwhelming adversity as did The South. A "probationary tax" was placed on our cotton, robbing us of the last resource the war had left us. Our ancestors were discriminated against for half a century, still we survived to see the land we love lifted out of the depths of poverty to a pinnacle of prosperity.