The pretext which this relation affords to foreigners to scrutinize the management of our domestic affairs, if not actually to intermeddle with them, presents a subject for earnest attention, not to say of serious alarm.
Van Buren raises concerns about foreign scrutiny of domestic affairs due to the national debt.
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