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3002. FINANCES, Disordered.—[continued].

The finances are said to
have been left by the late financier in the utmost
derangement, and his tools are urging
the funding the new debts they have contracted.
Thus posterity is to be left to pay
the ordinary expenses of our government in
time of peace.—
To James Monroe. Ford ed., vii, 60.
(M. March. 1796)