20 Text as printed by Mr. Reed. transposition of them will give a very different complexion to the same transaction. — but abundant reason to confirm me in it. — our money would have been upon a very different establishment in point of credit to what it is at this day — Such men as compose the bulk of an army are in a different train of thinking and acting to what they were in the early stages of the war, and nothing is now left for it but an annual and systematical mode of drafting, — — it will come to this, for there are people enow, old soldiers — — the difference will be, that instead of the public’s emitting or borrowing money to pay their bounties (which is enlarged greatly every new enlistment), these sums will be paid by individuals — — raise the value of it by multiplying the means of its use — — weakened by intestine divisions have energy enough to Text of the Letter-Books. transposition of them will give a very different complexion to the same thing. — but abundant reason to confirm it. — our money would have been upon a very different establishment in point of credit to * what it now is — * In these places to was printed from, probably as a grammatical correction. Such men as compose the bulk of an army are in a different train of thinking to * what they were in those early stages of the war, and nothing is now left but an annual and systematical mode of drafting, — — it will come to this, for there are people now, old soldiers — — the difference will be, that in lieu of the public’s emitting or borrowing money to pay the bounties, which increase rapidly every new enlistment, these bounties will be paid by individuals — — raise the value of it by multiplying the means for using it — — weakened by internal divisions have energy enough to
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTM4ODY=