To produce a net revenue equal to this deficiency he stated that the gross sum of taxes to be laid must be five millions of dollars.
He then reverted to his report of December 10, 1808, in which he had stated that "no internal taxes, either direct or indirect, were contemplated, even in the case of hostilities carried on against the two great belligerent powers." The balance in the Treasury was then nearly fourteen millions of dollars, but in view of the daily decrease of the revenue he had recommended "that all the existing duties be doubled on importations subsequent to the first day of January, 1809." As the revenues of 1809, 1810, and 1811 had yielded $26,000,000, the sum on hand, with the increase thus recommended, would have reached $20,000,000, a sum greater than the net amount of the proposed internal taxes in four years.
At that time no symptoms had appeared from which the absolute dissolution of the Bank of the United States without any substitute could have been anticipated.

If its charters had been renewed, on the conditions suggested by Mr.Gallatin, the necessity for internal taxes would have been avoided.

The resources of the country, properly applied, however, were amply sufficient to meet the emergency; but Mr.Gallatin distinctly threw upon Congress, and by implication upon the Republican majority, the responsibility for the state of the Treasury, and the imperative necessity for a form of taxation which it detested as oppressive, and which it was a party shibboleth to declare in and out of season, to be unconstitutional.

The choice of the administration was between the Bank which Jefferson detested and Gallatin favored, and the internal tax which Mr.Gallatin considered as the most repulsive in its operation of any form of revenue.
But necessity knows no law, and the prime mover, if not the original author, of the opposition to Hamilton's system was driven to propose the renewal of the measures, opposition to which had brought the Republican party into power, and had placed himself at the head of the Treasury.

He now proposed to raise the five millions deficiency by internal taxation--$3,000,000 by direct tax and $2,000,000 by indirect tax.
Continuing his lucid and remarkable report with careful details of the methods to be adopted, Gallatin closed with an urgent recommendation that the crisis should at once be met by the adoption of efficient measures to provide, with certainty, means commensurate with the expense, and by preserving unimpaired, instead of abusing, that credit on which the public resources eminently depend, to enable the United States to persevere in the contest until an honorable peace should be obtained.