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699. BANKS, Evils of.—[continued].

I think it impossible but
that the whole system must blow up before
the year is out; and thus a tax of three or
four hundred millions will be levied on our
citizens who had found it a work of so much
time and labor to pay off a debt of eighty
millions which had redeemed them from bondage.—
To President Madison. Ford ed., ix, 453.
(M. Feb. 1814)