Excerpt from The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six, and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon Upon the right management then, of the pub lick debt, the future tranquillity of the Common wealth greatly depended: And it was a melan choly circumstance, that various causes existed to prevent a fair experiment of the abilities of the people to discharge it. They had been laudably employed, during the nine years in which this debt had been accumulating, in the defence of their ...
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Excerpt from The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six, and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon Upon the right management then, of the pub lick debt, the future tranquillity of the Common wealth greatly depended: And it was a melan choly circumstance, that various causes existed to prevent a fair experiment of the abilities of the people to discharge it. They had been laudably employed, during the nine years in which this debt had been accumulating, in the defence of their liberties but, though their contest had in structed them in the nobler science of the rights of mankind, yet it gave them no proportionableinsight into the mazes of finance. Their honest prejudices were averse from duties of impost and excise, which were, at that time, supposed to be antirepublican by many judicious and influential characters. These measures, therefore, could be adopted, at first, but partially, and to small effect. The necessary arrangements at the treasury were wanting. The paper currency was failing, and, though from the great and complete exertions of Massachusetts to redeem her proportion of the continental bills of credit, their decay mttst have affected her faith as little as that of any state in the union, yet consequences of this expiring me dium could not be unfelt. Under so many dis couraging circumstances, it was not, perhaps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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