Besides, if we acknowledge that the national debt was created, not to hold the States in the Union, as the taxpayers were led to suppose, but to expel them from it and hand them over to be governed by Negroes, the moral duty to pay it may seem much less clear.
Johnson discusses the moral implications of the national debt in relation to the governance of the Southern states.
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