Whatever obligations the country may be under to those who hold its securities, it is under still greater to the producing interest, to which it must look for the ability to retire them when called upon so to do by the tenor of the contract they contain.
Woodhull emphasizes the greater obligation to the producing classes over those holding securities.
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