It is sufficient that the debt has been fairly contracted, and that justice and good faith demand that it should be fully discharged.

Congress had no option but between different modes of discharging it.

The same option is the only one that can exist with the states.

The mode which has, after long and elaborate discussion, been preferred, is, we are persuaded, the least objectionable of any that would have been equal to the purpose.

Under this persuasion, we call upon the justice and plighted faith of the several states to give it its proper effect, to reflect on the consequences of rejecting it, and to remember that congress will not be answerable for them." After expatiating on the merits of the several creditors, the report concludes, "let it be remembered finally, that it ever has been the pride and boast of America, that the rights for which she contended, were the rights of human nature.