Nor would it be practicable to discriminate between the debts contracted for general and for local objects.
In the course of the debate, severe allusions were made to the conduct of particular states; and the opinions advanced in favour of the measure, were ascribed to local interests.
In support of the assumption, the debts of the states were traced to their origin.

America, it was said, had engaged in a war, the object of which was equally interesting to every part of the union.

It was not the war of a particular state, but of the United States.

It was not the liberty and independence of a part, but of the whole, for which they had contended, and which they had acquired.

The cause was a common cause.