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Excerpt from Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. 24: 1774-1789; January 1 August 29
The year 1783 not only increased the difficulties with which Congress had struggled through the preceding year but also created new embarrassments to intensify the ih herent weakness of the Confederation, though the successful termination of the armed con?ict was plainly in sight. The political bands which had connected one people with another had been dissolved; but to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them required that the expense of the struggle to assume that station Should be honorably met. The attention of Congress there fore became absorbed in the ever - pressing problem of devising a practicable plan of providing a revenue and reducing the current expenditures of the General Govern ment. To the latter end committees were appointed in the second week in January to inquire into the administra tion of the Departments of Finance, War, Foreign Affairs, Post Office, and the Office of Agent of Marine.
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