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2054. DEBT (United States), Increasing.—[further continued].

A debt of an hundred
millions, growing by usurious interest, and an
artificial paper phalanx, overruling the agricultural
mass of our country, * * * have a
portentous aspect.—
To Samuel Adams. Washington ed. iv, 321. Ford ed., vii, 425.
(Pa., Feb. 1800)