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8084. SPECULATION, Excessive.—[continued].

The unmoneyed farmer,
as he is termed, his cattle and crops are no
more thought of here [Philadelphia [462] ] than if
they did not feed us. Scrip and stock are
food and raiment here.—
To T. M. Randolph. Ford ed., v, 455.
(Pa., 1792)

 
[462]

Philadelphia was then the capital.—Editor.