What offers has their government of pretended liberty had
from Holland, from Hamburg, from Switzerland, from Genoa, from England
for a dealing in their paper? Why should these nations of commerce and
economy enter into any pecuniary dealings with a people who attempt to
reverse the very nature of things, amongst whom they see the debtor
prescribing at the point of the bayonet the medium of his solvency
to the creditor, discharging one of his engagements with another,
turning his very penury into his resource and paying his interest with
his rags?
Their fanatical confidence in the omnipotence of church plunder
has induced these philosophers to overlook all care of the public
estate, just as the dream of the philosopher's stone induces dupes,
under the more plausible delusion of the hermetic art, to neglect
all rational means of improving their fortunes. With these philosophic
financiers, this universal medicine made of church mummy is to cure
all the evils of the state. These gentlemen perhaps do not believe a
great deal in the miracles of piety, but it cannot be questioned
that they have an undoubting faith in the prodigies of sacrilege. Is
there a debt which presses them?- Issue assignats. Are compensations
to be made or a maintenance decreed to those whom they have robbed
of their freehold in their office, or expelled from their profession?-
Assignats.
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