The repudiation of the Public Debt is not a matter of expectation or fear, it is a matter of certainty, if you assent to any reconstruction of this Union through the instrumentality of Jefferson Davis and his associates.
Boutwell asserts that agreeing to a reconstruction involving Southern leaders would inevitably lead to the repudiation of the public debt.
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