...nature of the debt of the United States. It was the price of liberty. The faith of America has heen repeatedly pledged for it, and with solemnities that...seven years have exhibited an earnest and uniform eflbrt on the part of the government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice...

...and with solemnities that give peculiar force to the obligation. There is, indeed, great reason tu regret that it has not hitherto been kept; that the...necessities of the war, conspiring with inexperience on the subject of finance, produced direct infractions; and that the subsequent period has been a continued...

...force to the obligation. There is, indeed, reason to regret that it has not hitlierlo been kept; thai the necessities of the war, conspiring with inexperience...and uniform effort on the part of the Government of the Union to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors of the nation; and that...

...principles. to the obligation. There is, indeed, reason to regret that it has not hitherto been kcpt^ that the necessities of the war, conspiring with inexperience...years have exhibited an earnest and uniform effort on thepart of the Government of the Union to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors...

...faith, which is the basis of public credit, is recommended by the strongest inducements of politioal expediency, it is enforced by considerations of still...and uniform effort, on the part of the Government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors of the nation ; and that...

...Providence, an intimate connection between public virtue and public happiness, will be its repugnancy to the violation of those principles. This reflection derives...reflection that the last seven years have exhibited earnest and uniform effort, on the part of the government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit,...

...authority. There are arguments for it which rest on the immutable principles of moral obligation. . . . This reflection derives additional strength from the...and uniform effort, on the part of the Government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors of the nation ; and that...

...peculiar force to the obligaliuat There is, indeed, reason to regret that it has not hitherto beeWjgpt; ^^ the necessities of the war, conspiring with inexperience,...and uniform effort, on the part of the Government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors of the nation ; and that...

...interest too well to refuse their concurrence in such modifications of their claims as any real necessity may demand. While the observance of that good faith,...and uniform effort, on the part of the Government of the Union, to retrieve the national credit, by doing justice to the creditors of the nation; and that...

...proportion as the mind is disposed to contemplate, in the order of Providence, an intimate connexion between public virtue and public happiness, will be...has been a continued scene of negative violation, or non-compliaiice. But a diminution of this regret arises from the reflection, that the last seven years...