Impracticable Adherence to the Principles of Civil Liberty 161 Provision for the Officers found to be inadequate 162 Congress recommends to the States to make Provision for the Officers and Soldiers 162 Pennsylvania places her Officers upon Half-Pay for Life 163 Congress pass a Resolve giving Half-Pay for Life to the Officers 163 Disappointment of the Officers 164 The Congress of the Confederation refuse to redeem the Pledge of the Revolutionary Congress 164 Officers offer to commute the Half-Pay for Life 165 Breach of Public Faith 166 Situation of Washington 167 Anonymous Address circulated among the Officers at Newburgh 168 Washington forbids an Assemblage at the Call of an Anonymous Paper 168 He appoints a Day to hear the Report of their Committee 168 The Officers again refer their Claims to the Consideration of Congress 169 Half-Pay commuted to Five Years' Full Pay 170 The Army disbanded 170 Value of the Votes which fixed the Compensation of the Officers 171 CHAPTER II. 1781-1783. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE CONFEDERATION.--REVOLUTIONARY DEBT.--REVENUE SYSTEM OF 1783. Public Debt of the United States 172 Congress recommend a Duty upon Importations 173 Office of Superintendent of Finance established 174 Rhode Island refuses to grant to Congress the Power of Levying Duties 174 Virginia repeals the Act by which she had granted this Power to Congress 175 No Means of paying the Public Debts 175 Another Plan for collecting Revenues recommended to the States 176 Strong Appeal to the People in Favor of it 177 Claims of the various Classes of the Public Creditors 178 Character of the United States involved 179 The Confederation a Government for Purposes of War 181 Its Great Defects 181 The Moral Feelings an Unsafe Reliance for the Operations of Government 183