Let me go off quietly.

I cannot last long." After giving some instructions about his burial he became easier, felt his own pulse, and died without a struggle._] The friends of the administration supported the proposed system against every objection to it, because they believed it to be more productive, and less unpopular, than a direct tax.

It is not impossible that what recommended the system to one party, might constitute a real objection to it with those who believed that the public interest required a change[21] in the public councils.
[Footnote 21: The declaration was not unfrequently made that the people could only be roused to a proper attention to the violation of their rights, and to the prodigal waste of their money, by perceiving the weight of their taxes.

This was concealed from them by the indirect, and would be disclosed to them by the direct, system of taxation.] On the ninth of June, this active and stormy session was closed by an adjournment to the first Monday in the succeeding November.
[Sidenote: Congress adjourns.] The public was not less agitated than the legislature had been, by those interesting questions which had occasioned some of the most animated and eloquent discussions that had ever taken place on the floor of the house of representatives.

Mr.Madison's resolutions especially, continued to be the theme of general conversation; and, for a long time, divided parties throughout the United States.