The peril of the situation was increased by the well-meant but injudicious whisperings of other public creditors, who believed that if the army would only take a firm stand and insist upon a grant of permanent funds to Congress for Liquidating all public debts, the states could probably be prevailed upon to make such a grant.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske
There had been paid over by Captain Flagg to government toward Liquidating the war debt, thirteen thousand dollars.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
Thus ends this month, with my head and mind mighty full and disquiett because of my accounts, which I have let go too long, and confounded my publique with my private that I cannot come to any Liquidating of them.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke