Claims of Officers of the Revolutionary Army (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Claims of Officers of the Revolutionary Army The Bill, (H. B.) No, 3694, now before Congress, to provide for these claims, is entitled, "A Bill to provide for the settlement of the unpaid claims of those officers of the line of the Revolutionary Army who served to the close of the War of Independence, and so returned on the books of the Treasury." This measure comes down to us from the opening of the Republic, connecting the glories, but also the responsibilities, of her earliest and her present day. The only explanation that can be given for the obtrusion of such a Bill within the precincts of our second century is to be found in the fact that the debt it contemplates was considerable, and due at home to those whose potency ceased with their disbandment, and whose rights, therefore, it has been deemed safe to disappoint and disregard, and, by a few, to deny. Towards a case of this sacred sort - and who can conceive one more so - it plainly devolves on a great and mighty people to place itself in an attitude of unmixed and entire good faith, free from all artifice and finesse of thought and word, and to determine the result according to actual facts and genuine testimony. Pervaded by this view a thorough investigation of the whole subject is herein faithfully presented; and the subject is divided, for convenience sake, into the several parts or heads, under which it seems naturally to fall. Respecting Half-pay and Commutation. On these subjects there is nothing higher or more authoritative than the declarations of Congress. On the 11th July, 1783, the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts addressed a letter to Congress complaining of the half pay arrangement with the officers of the army, and the "proposed" commutation for the half pay, together "with some other matters of a similar nature." These measures were reported to have produced "among the people of that Commonwealth the greatest concern and uneasiness, and to have involved its legislature in no small embarrassments." The principal objects of popular displeasure in Massachusetts were the "half pay" and the "commutation" which had superseded it, whilst the only other matter of a similar nature specially mentioned, but which was declared "inconsistent" with republican "equality, the state of our finances, the rules of equity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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