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2785. EXCISE LAW, Odious.—
The accumulation
of debt * * * [created by
the Assumption] has obliged [us] * * *
to resort to an excise law, of odious character
with the people, partial in its operation, unproductive
unless enforced by arbitrary and vexatious
means, and committing the authority
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is most probable, and coercion least practicable.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iii, 361. Ford ed., vi, 2.
(Pa., May. 1702)
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