587. ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBTS, Opposition engendered.—
It is not to be expected that our system of finance has
met your approbation in all its parts. It has
excited even here great opposition; and more
especially that part of it which transferred the
State debts to the General Government. The
States of Virginia and North Carolina are peculiarly
dissatisfied with this measure. I believe,
however, that it is harped on by many to mask
their disaffection to the government on other
grounds.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. iii, 198.
Ford ed., v, 250.
(Pa.,
Nov. 1790)
