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6347. PAPER MONEY, Contraction.—[further continued].

Let us be allured by no
projects of banks, public or private, or
ephemeral expedients, which, enabling us to
gasp and flounder a little longer, only in
crease, by protracting the agonies of death.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 395. Ford ed., ix, 492.
(M. 1814)