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2047. DEBT (Revolutionary), Western Lands and.—[further continued] .

I am very much pleased to hear that our western lands sell so successfully.
I turn to this precious resource as that
which will in every event liberate us from our
domestic debt, and perhaps too from our foreign
one; and this much sooner than I had expected.—
To E. Carrington. Washington ed. ii, 333. Ford ed., iv, 481.
(P. 1787)