From 1779 onward we trace the idea of supporting government by the interest of the propertied classes; from 1781 onward the idea that a not-excessive public debt would be a blessing 4 in giving cohesiveness to the union: hence his device by which the federal government, assuming the war debts of the states, secured greater resources, based itself on a high ideal of nationalism, strengthened its hold on the individual citizen, and gained the support of property.   anvd [Please select]

This emancipation was paid for by all sorts of instability; awful political instability, because stability in such things is produced exactly by the opposite--by long firm tradition and cohesiveness.   anvd [Please select]