If it should appear that the Legislature has done their part in furnishing the money for the French nation, and that the Executive departments have applied it to other purposes, then it will certainly be desirable that we get back on legal ground as soon as possible, by pressing on the domestic funds and availing ourselves of any proper opportunity which may be furnished of replacing the money to the foreign creditors. —

TITLE: To President Washington.
EDITION: Ford ed., vi, 177.
PLACE: [none given]
DATE: 1793