. The Civil War : the national view . T CONFEDERACY OR NATION i6l to Congress supreme power over the sources of revenue wasconstrued by the disciples of State sovereignty as a dangerousinvasion of the rights of the States. Then, too, there was theproblem of transportation and inter-state commerce—overwhich Congress had no control and over which the Statesindicated very little willingness to come to an public debt to foreign powers and to domestic creditors,growing out of the Revolution, was pressing for settlement,and hardly was the Treaty of 1783 signed and proclaimedbefore a di
. The Civil War : the national view . T CONFEDERACY OR NATION i6l to Congress supreme power over the sources of revenue wasconstrued by the disciples of State sovereignty as a dangerousinvasion of the rights of the States. Then, too, there was theproblem of transportation and inter-state commerce—overwhich Congress had no control and over which the Statesindicated very little willingness to come to an public debt to foreign powers and to domestic creditors,growing out of the Revolution, was pressing for settlement,and hardly was the Treaty of 1783 signed and proclaimedbefore a disposition was evident in many quarters of theUnion to repudiate the debt. Public credit, the life of anation, was thus imperilled. The total issue by Congressof bills of credit reached the vast sum of $233,000,000, bythe first of December, 1779. The States had issued quiteas much. Public credit was vanishing. It was at this time that Congress appealed to the States toamend the Articles so as to empower it to levy the requisitetax,
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