If the only objection to this exaction were the Exorbitancy of its amount, it could not be submitted to by the United States.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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The general impression as to the Exorbitancy of the existing rate of interest has led to an inquiry in the public mind respecting the consideration which the Government has actually received for its bonds, and the conclusion is becoming prevalent that the amount which it obtained was in real money three or four hundred per cent less than the obligations which it issued in return.
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Nor is the Exorbitancy of his plunders visible only in the dreadful consequences it hath produced to the prigs, nor glares it only in the miseries brought on them: it blazes forth in the more desirable effects it hath wrought for himself, in the rich perquisites acquired by it: witness that silk nightgown, that robe of shame, which, to his eternal dishonour, he publicly wears; that gown which I will not scruple to call the winding-sheet of the liberties of Newgate.
"The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great"
Henry Fielding