Should it ever take place, it would remedy any inequalities which might grow out of the assumption.

Should it never take place, the justice of the measure became the more apparent.

That the burdens in support of a common war, which from various causes had devolved unequally on the states, ought to be apportioned among them, was a truth too clear to be controverted; and this, if the settlement should never be accomplished, could be effected only by the measure now proposed.

Indeed, in any event, it would be the only certain, as well as only eligible plan.

For how were the debtor states to be compelled to pay the balances which should be found against them?
If the measure was recommended by considerations which rendered its ultimate adoption inevitable, the present was clearly preferable to any future time.