These considerations can not be lost upon a people who have never been inattentive to the effect of their policy upon the institutions they have created for themselves, but at the present moment their force is augmented by the necessity which a decreasing revenue must impose.
Van Buren notes that the public must consider how their policies affect the institutions they have established, especially in light of decreasing revenue.
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