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2048. DEBT (Revolutionary), Western Lands and.—[further continued].

I am much pleased that
the sale of western lands is so successful. I
hope they will absorb all the certificates of our
domestic debt speedily, in the first place, and
that then, offered for cash, they will do the same
by our foreign one.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. ii, 328. Ford ed., iv, 475.
(P. 1787)