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TABLE IV.

Showing the Force that each of the Thirteen States supplied for the Regular Army, from 1775 to 1783, inclusive.

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Expense of the Revolutionary War.

It is not possible to ascertain with certainty the expenses of the Revolutionary War. An estimate was made, in 1790, by the Register of the Treasury, of which the following is a general abstract:

The estimated amount of the expenditures of 1775 and 1776 is, in specie,

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20,064,666 66

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To Nov. 1, 1784, .

Forming an amount total of

$92,485,693 15

The foregoing estimates, being confined to actual treasury payments, are exclusive of the debts of the United States, which

were incurred, at various periods, for the support of the war, and should be taken into a general view of the expense thereof, viz. :—

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Army debt, upon commissioners' certificates,
For supplies furnished by the citizens of the
several States, and for which certificates were
issued by the commissioners,

For supplies furnished in the quartermaster, com-
missary, hospital, clothing, and marine depart-
ments, exclusive of the foraging,
For supplies, on accounts settled at the treasury,
and for which certificates were issued by the
register,

Dolls. 90ths.

11,080,576 1

3,723,625 20

1,159,170 5

744,638 49

$16,708,009 75

Note. The loan-office debt formed a part of the treasury expenditures.

The foreign expenditures, civil, military, naval, and contingencies, amount, by computation, to the sum of

The expenditures of the several States, from the commencement of the war to the establishment of peace, cannot be stated with any degree of certainty, because the accounts thereof remain to be settled; but, as the United States have granted certain sums for the relief of the several States, to be funded by the general government, therefore estimate the total amount of said assumption, .

Estimated expense of the war, specie,

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5,000,000 00

21,500,000 00

$135,693,703 00

TABLE VI.

Emissions of Continental Money.

The advances made from the treasury were principally in a paper medium, which was called Continental money, and which in ■ short time depreciated: the specie value of it is given in the

foregoing estimate. The advances made at the treasury of the United States in Continental money, in old and new emissions, are estimated as follows, viz. :—

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By comparing this amount of paper money, issued during the Revolution, with the above estimate of the total expense in specie dollars, it will be seen that the average depreciation of the whole amount issued was nearly two thirds of its original value.

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N. Hamp.,
Mass.
R. Island,
Conn.

New York,

4,278,015.02 1,082,954.02 3,195.061 17,964,613.03 6,258.880.03 11,705,733 1,248,801 3,782,974.46 1,977,608.46 1,805,366 299,611 9,285,737.92 3,436,244.92 5,829,493 619,121 7,179,982.78 1,960,031.78 5,219,951

75,055

2,074,846

N. Jersey,

Penn.

5,342,770.52 1,343,321.52 3,999,449 49,030 14,137,076.22 4,690,686.22 9,446,390

76,709

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Virginia, 19,085,981.51 3,803,416.51 15,282,865
N.Carolina, 10,427,586.13 3,151,358.13 7,276,228

S.Carolina, 11,523,299.29 5,780,264.20 5,743,035 1,205,978

100,879

501,082

Georgia, 2,993,800.86 1,415,328.86 1,578,472|

19,988

ADDRESS TO GENERAL GREENE.

(See page 350.)

CAMP SOUTHERN ARMY,
High Hills, Santee, 20th August, 1781.

The subscribers, commissioned officers serving in the Southern Army, beg leave to represent to the Honorable Major-General Greene, That they are informed, not only by current reports, but by official and acknowledged authority, that, contrary to express stipulations in the capitulation of Charleston, signed the 12th day of May, 1780, a number of very respectable inhabitants of that town and others were confined on board prison-ships and sent to St. Augustine, and other places distant from their homes, families, and friends. That notwithstanding the general cartel settled for exchange of prisoners in the Southern Department, and agreed to the 3d day of May last, several officers of militia and other gen

tlemen, subjects of the United States, have been and still are detained in captivity.

That the commanding officer of the British forces in Charleston, regardless of the principles and even of the existence of the said cartel, hath not only presumed to discriminate between the militia and other subjects of the United States, prisoners of war, partially determining who were and who were not objects of exchange, but hath even dared to execute, in the most ignominious manner, Colonel Haynes of the militia of the State of South Carolina, a gentleman ami able in his character, respectable in his connections, and of eminent abilities: and this violent act, as cruel as it was unnecessary and unjust, we are informed, is attempted to be justified by the imputed crime of treason, founded upon the unfortunate sufferer's having in circumstances peculiarly distressing, accepted what is called a Protection from the British government.

If every inhabitant of this country, who, being bound by the tender ties of family connections, and fettered by domestic embarrassments, is forced to submit to the misfortune of falling into the hands of the enemy, must therefore become subject to such inhuman authority, and if such subjects are liable to be tried by martial law for offences against the civil government of the British nation, their situation is truly deplorable. But we conceive forms of protection that are granted one day, and retracted, violated, disclaimed, or deserted the next, can enjoin no such condition or obligation upon persons who accept them. We consider the citizens of the United States of America as independent of the government of Great Britain, as those of Great Britain are of the United States or of any other sovereign power; and think it just that indulgences and severities to prisoners of war ought to be reciprocal. We, therefore, with submission, beg leave to recommend that a strict inquiry be made into the several things mentioned, and if ascertained, that you will be pleased to retaliate in the most effectual manner by

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