MoETffAGE os Indtjstby. — Our National Debt, in round numbers, is three thousand millions, which, divided among thirty millions of people, isubout one hundred dollars per ', head ; the State debt is about fifty-one millions, which, divided among four millions of people, is nearly thirteen doilara per head j and our city debt is forty-ono ir.iiiioae. or about forty-one dollars per head, Xhis makes a total of one hundred and ilfty«four dollars for each man, woman, and child in the city of Kew York. Ab not over o«o person in ais is a laboui-ev or creator of wealth, it foUowe that t<ttf;h jictuiil producer is saddled wilb. a debt of one thousand dol'urg, upon wjairh ho must pay interest fop tliM rest of )»ie life, The prospect is not a
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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 July 1866, Page 3
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