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PL.778.084
18 Mar 1778:21, 22, 23 (136)
The Congress have undertaken the weighty task of waging 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! . . . [long essay on
financing the war.]
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