Dismal State of U.S. and European Fiscal Affairs
Document 1799Adams waxes depressedly about the state of U.S. financial affairs, comparing them to the similar dismal state of "debt and taxes" in Europe.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Adams waxes depressedly about the state of U.S. financial affairs, comparing them to the similar dismal state of "debt and taxes" in Europe.
Date
07/27/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Quincy
Repository
Collection
Document number
1799072740001
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1
Notable persons
James McHenry
John Adams
Trenchard
Gordon
Bolingbroke
Barnard
Walpole
Hume
Burgh
Burke
Secretary of War
President United States
cavalry
Notable locations
Quincy
Massachusetts
Europe
Great Britain
Notable items
rush upon my memory and frighten me out of my witts
system of debts and taxes is levelling all government in Europe
arrive at the European crisis
practicable or imaginable expedient to escape
rec'd your favor
objection to the plan you propose of raising a company of cavalry
think of our means without shuddering
declarations as well as demonstrations