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CC-H.772.028
12-19 May 1772:11,12,13,21 (386)
Ever since people's consciences have been released from the
bonds of the nonimportation agreement, we flow in goods,
commerce not only meets with high encomiums, but is
practiced upon as the health and wealth of the country; and
such a notion has possessed the minds of people about trade
and barter, that if two men meet and exchange a couple of
cart-horses, but just out of reach of the crows; they think
they may afford two or three days, to go about and tell of
their gains. . . [73 lines warning of increasing debts
incurred by too much trade in goods] Have you any money? was
his constant cry. One tells him, I have no money these hard
times. Another, I cant call in my money. . . [5 lines of
other excuses] Another tells him I have married a young
wife, and she is proging for cloathes to dance in, when I am
dead. . . [90 lines, identifying New York traders and paper
money as other causes of Connecticut's financial woes]
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