In his estimate of the annual products of the States, which most 

 will deem rather under than over the truth, by showing how ample 

 are the means to pay their public debts, he has taken away the 

 only ground upon which the base doctrine " of repudiation" could 

 have found countenance with any large portion of the American 

 people. 



Both in his estimates and speculations the writer has studied 

 brevity, as he wished to make his little work a sort of hand book 

 to the legislator, the statesman, and to all who are conversans with 

 political arithmetic. To these it is more particularly addressed by 



THE AUTHOR. 



University of Virginia, July 1, 1843. 



