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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from New York on March 7 describes slow congressional progress on assuming state debts, with opposition from Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania due to low debt levels. Slim majority favors adoption of the Secretary's financial report. Troops planned for southwestern frontier defense against Native American attacks, prompting gallery closure.
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"You will see by the papers how we are going on. Congress move very slow. Virginia, Maryland, and a part of Pennsylvania, are against assuming the State Debts--The reason is, they have not a great amount of those debts. There is a bare majority in favor of the measure--but how it will go, is uncertain. I think they will be adopted; and, indeed, I think the Secretary's Report, in substance, will be the system of future Finance. I understand, Troops are to be raised for the defence of our fellow-citizens on the South-Western Frontiers from the depredations of the savages. This is the business which has occasioned (as is said) shutting the galleries."
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New York
Event Date
March 7
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outcome on debt assumption uncertain; troops to be raised for frontier defense
Event Details
Congress debates slowly on assuming state debts, opposed by Virginia, Maryland, and part of Pennsylvania due to low debt amounts; bare majority in favor, likely to adopt Secretary's financial report. Troops planned to defend southwestern frontiers from savage depredations, causing galleries to be shut.