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Chapter
Recapitulation and Conclusion
Upon the whole the proposed measure, it is
believed will be found to promise with some
degree of assurance the following connected but
perfectly distinct advantages.
1. Advantage of financial profit, by contributing in so many various, and to such considerable
amounts to the redemption of the principal of the
National Debt, as well as to the reduction of the
rate of interest, and by affording an instrument
more advantageous than any other for the application
to that end of such means as are or may be
provided from other Sources.—
2. Moral advantages, by the encouragement of
frugality and thence of temperance among the
inferior and most numerous ranks of the
Community.—
3. Constitutional Advantages by constituting an
kind of Connection to the Government and
thence becoming affording an additional safeguard
to internal tranquillity.
4. Politico-economical advantages — by addition
made to the mass of national productive Capital
and thence to the Mass of growing wealth — Each of the above four matters of advantage appears sufficient to warrant
an experiment even should it attended with some risk. Shall they not all
of them together be deemed sufficient to give birth to an experiment altogether
free from risk
The earlier the Success the greater — but sooner
or later, to a certain degree Success is infallible,
whilst
Fear
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