text:  With this proof that it is not with an occasional or casual deficiency that we have to deal will you I ask have recourse to the miserable expedient of continued _loans_? It is impossible that I could be a party to a proceeding which I should think might perhaps have been justifiable at first _before you knew exactly the nature of your revenue and expenditure_; but with these facts before me I should think I were degrading the situation which I hold if I could consent to such a paltry expedient as this