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Though debts were great and financial confusion maddening, they furnished no solid excuse for the failure of the States to enable Congress to preserve American honor by the payment of our admitted National debt.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Though debts were great and financial confusion maddening, they furnished no solid excuse for the failure of the States…”
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Beveridge argues that financial difficulties do not justify the states' failure to support Congress in honoring national debts.
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Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.
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