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1821. May 27.
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Loans Foreign
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Foreign Laws
Loans to Foreign powers — their nature — their amount —
To go no further back than the revolutionary war, all money
thus obtained and disposed of may, with the most perfect truth, though
obtained by extortion, be stated as obtained on false pretences — on pretences
known by the obtainers to be false.
In fact, of the money thus lent, not a particle has ever been
received back. It was not on the the nature of the case that, in the minds
of those by whom it was obtained and thus disposed of, any expectation
should have been entertained had place of receiving back any part of it. At the
time when, borrowed under the name under the name of a loan obtained by the foreign
government from this government, the very cause and reason
of its being so obtained was that from no resources of its own, from
no subject of its own, was it in the power of that foreign Government
to obtain it. By no degree of success, of which there could
have been any tolerably well-grounded prospect, could the power
of the foreign government to repay that money have been encreased.
On the contrary, after any ordinary degree of success, that power
could not but for a long time have been diminished.
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