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706. BANKS, Failures of.—[further continued].

Providence seems, indeed,
by a special dispensation, to have put
down for us, without a struggle, that very
paper enemy which the interest of our citizens
long since required ourselves to put
down, at whatever risk. The work is done.
The moment is pregnant with futurity, and
if not seized at once by Congress, I know not
on what shoal our bark is next to be stranded.—
To Thomas Cooper. Washington ed. vi, 382.
(M. Sep. 1814)