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PEP.778.036
20 Mar 1778:1221 (4/469)
From the Pennsylvania Ledger. The congress have undertaken
the weighty task of waging a war with Great Britain. War is
rather an expensive amusement; yet our gallant adventurers,
like a set of giddy mad caps, entered the dance without
money to pay the piper. However, as they were determined
not to baulk their fancy, they undertook to create what they
could not otherwise supply, and to keep up the ball with a
droll kind of money, which they call continental dollars!
. . . [3 columns of discussion on devaluation of continental
money]
[signed] Pacificus.
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