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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
states, to compel their compliance with the requisitions made upon them. Danger, he wrote, may spring from delay; good, from a timely application of a remedy. The present temper of the states is friendly to the establishment of a lasting union; the moment should be improved: if suffered to pass away, it may never return; and, after gloriously and successfully contending against the usurpations of Britain, we may fall a prey to our own follies and disputes. Madison Papers, i. 82. Mr. Hugh Blair Grigsby assures me that there can be no doubt that Washington wrote the above letter. Written by H. B. G., 30 May, 1867; very high authority. He was more particularly impelled to express his opinions with freedom, because in December, 1779, the legislature of Virginia seemed to have censured the point of enforcing obedience to requisitions. It would give me concern, he added, should it be thought of me that I am desirous of enlarging the powers of congress unnecessarily, as I declare t