Hence a too strong propensity in the governments of nations, to anticipate and mortgage the resources of posterity, rather than to encounter the inconveniencies of a present increase of taxes.
"But this policy, when not dictated by very peculiar circumstances, is of the worst kind.

Its obvious tendency is, by enhancing the permanent burdens of the people, to produce lasting distress, and its natural issue is in national bankruptcy." It will be happy if the councils of this country, sanctioned by the voice of an enlightened community, shall be able to pursue a different course.
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VII.

_See Page 450._ _About the same time a letter was addressed to the attorney general on the same subject.

The following extract is taken from one of the twenty-sixth of August to the secretary of the treasury._ "Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects can not be discussed with temper, on the one hand, or decisions submitted to on the other, without improperly implicating the motives which led to them; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same _general_ objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of each other.