4.  Virginia certainly owed two millions, sterling, to Great Britain, at the conclusion of the war.  Some have conjectured the debt as high as three millions.  I think that state owed near as much as all the rest put together.  This is to be ascribed to peculiarities in the tobacco trade.  The advantages made by the British merchants, on the tobaccos consigned to them, were so enormous, that they spared no means of increasing those consignments.  A powerful engine for this purpose, was the giving good prices and credit to the planter, till they got him more immersed in debt than he could pay, without selling his lands or slaves.  They then reduced the prices given for his tobacco, so that let his shipments be ever so great, and his demand of necessaries ever so economical, they never permitted him to clear off his debt.  These debts had become hereditary from father to son, for many generations, so that the planters were a species of property, annexed to certain mercantile houses in London.

5.  The members of Congress are differently paid by different States.  Some are on fixed allowances, from four to eight dollars a day.  Others have their expenses paid, and a surplus for their time.  This surplus is of two, three, or four dollars a day.

6.  I do not believe there has ever been a moment, when a single whig, in any one State, would not have shuddered at the very idea of a separation of their State from the confederacy.  The tories would, at all times, have been glad to see the confederacy dissolved, even by particles at a time, in hopes of their attaching themselves again to Great Britain.

7.  The 11th article of Confederation admits Canada to accede to the Confederation, at its own will, but adds, ’no other colony shall be admitted to the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.’  When the plan of April, 1784, for establishing new States, was on the carpet, the committee who framed the report of that plan, had inserted this clause, ’provided nine States agree to such admission, according to the reservation of the 11th of the articles of Confederation.’  It was objected, 1.  That the words of the Confederation, ‘no other colony,’ could refer only to the residuary possessions of Great Britain, as the two Floridas, Nova Scotia, &c. not being already parts of the Union; that the law for ‘admitting’ a new member into the Union, could not be applied to a territory which was already in the Union, as making part of a State which was a member of it. 2.  That it would be improper to allow ‘nine’ States to receive a new member, because the same reasons which rendered that number proper now, would render a greater one proper, when the number composing the Union should be increased.  They therefore struck out this paragraph, and inserted a proviso, that, ’the consent of so many States, in Congress, shall be first obtained, as may, at the time, be competent;’ thus leaving the question, whether the 11th article applies to the admission of