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Jefferson.
Come, come! I cannot discuss this matter with you, Citizen Giles, unless you refrain from invective.

Giles.
Well—he's a Virginian, and yet he is just as interested in New York and Massachusetts as he is in Virginia. It makes me sick.

[A soldier who has been sitting l. of table r. rises and goes off up r. smiling.

Monroe.
The Capital of the United States doesn't go to the North as long as James Monroe has a fight in him.

Jefferson.
Let us consider our own position. Hamilton is straining every nerve to pass through Congress his Bill for the Government Assumption of States' Debts.

[Reynolds appears at door up r. smoking a pipe. He leans against door a minute, then comes to post r. c. and pretends to be reading the card while he listens.

Giles.
It's an outrage. Let every state pay its own debts.

Monroe.
Well, we're blocking that bill, and will continue to block it to the last ditch.

Jefferson.
Without our coöperation—which we cannot possibly extend—his bill cannot go through.