692. BANKS, Depreciated Paper of.—[continued].
Already there is so much
of their trash afloat that the great holders of
it show vast anxiety to get rid of it. They
perceive that now, as in the Revolutionary
war, we are engaged in the old game of Robin's
alive. They are ravenous after lands and
stick at no price. In the neighborhood of
Richmond, the seat of that sort of sensibility,
they offer twice as much now as they would
give a year ago.—
To President Madison.
Ford ed., ix, 453.
(M.
Feb. 1814)
