Excerpt from The Rights and Duties of Property: With a Plan for Paying Off the National Debt But the evils which necessarily arise in society from labour having been divorced from its rights, and property exonerated from its duties, have been further aggravated by the National Debt - a debt fraudulently contracted, and more fraudulently attempted to be perpetuated through a drawling discharge of the capital, and an igno minious payment of interest. Notwithstanding all the hereditary perversions in our funding system, we are disposed to manifest more benevolence towards the fund holders than strict justice would warrant, considering many of them, as well as the people, the ignorant victims of a vicious system; and therefore, we shall propose the means whereby their claims may be fairly and justly dealt with, and a repayment of the debt made to them, consistently with the rights and duties of property, and in accordance with the beneficial interest? Of industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.