text:  And more than half of our national revenue is appropriated to the payment of our own debt; in other words every acre of land besides the support of its owner and the actual demands of the State is encumbered with the support of two or three persons who represent the creditors of the nation; and every man who would have laboured twelve hours had no national debt existed is now obliged to toil sixteen for the same remuneration: such a state of things may be necessary but it certainly requires investigation