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3003. FINANCES, Disordered.—[further continued].

I had always conjectured,
from such facts as I could get hold of,
that our public debt was increasing about a
million of dollars a year. You will see by
Gallatin's speeches that the thing is proved.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 140. Ford ed., vii, 80.
(M. June. 1796)