1520. CONGRESS, Corruption and.—[continued].
The capital employed in
paper speculation * * * has furnished effectual
means of corrupting such a portion
of the Legislature, as turns the balance between
the honest which ever way it is
directed. This corrupt squadron, deciding
the voice of the Legislature, have manifested
their dispositions to get rid of the limitations
imposed by the Constitution on the general
Legislature, limitations, on the faith of which,
the States acceded to that instrument.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iii, 361.
Ford ed., vi, 3.
(Pa.,
May. 1792)
