In a letter to the President of Congress, July 22, 1782, (Robert) Morris said that a large part of America was held by great landowners and that a land tax would have the salutary effect of an agrarian law without the iniquity.
— PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. SUMNER, The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution, Vol. II., Chap. 33, p. 251.
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