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8522. TREASURY, Necessity for.—

Every circumstance we hear induces us to
believe that it is the want of will, rather than
of ability, to furnish contributions which
keeps the public treasury so poor. The Algerines
will probably do us the favor to produce
a sense of the necessity of a public treasury
and a public force on that element where
it can never be dangerous.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. ii, 10.
(P. 1786)