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723. BANKS, Mania for.—[further continued].

This infatuation of banks
is a torrent which it would be a folly for me
to get in the way of. I see that it must take
its course, until actual ruin shall awaken us
from its delusions.—
To Joseph C. Cabell. Washington ed. vi, 300.
(M. Jan. 1814)