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ously cripple its means for the war, impair its power to meet its liabilities after the war, and thus impair its credit and the value of any currency or obligation it may issue. In view of these considerations, it will be better for everybody to incur no obligations that can be avoided, and those that cannot be avoided should be made for as brief a time as possible. Bonds given now should be regulated somewhat in amount by the probable exigencies and changes that may occur before next January. It is certainly unwise for a man to engage in a bond to mature then at present prices for anything.--Let the people maintain their own credit. It is important to the Government itself that they should. The currency is no unconquerable obstacle to our independence. It was not to the independence of our Fathers of 76. It would be the will of all save traitors and misers that the whole of the present Confederate currency should be burned, if that were necessary to our triumphant defe