His ideas on these important subjects had been already stated to congress, and were now reurged.
With respect to the additional expense to be incurred by the measures recommended, he observed, "that our funds were not the only object now to be taken into consideration.

The enemy, it was found, were daily gathering strength from the disaffected.

This strength, like a snow ball by rolling, would increase, unless some means should be devised to check effectually the progress of their arms.

Militia might possibly do it for a little while; but in a little while also, the militia of those states which were frequently called upon would not turn out at all, or would turn out with so much reluctance and sloth, as to amount to the same thing.

Instance New Jersey! Witness Pennsylvania! Could any thing but the river Delaware have saved Philadelphia?
"Could any thing," he asked, "be more destructive of the recruiting business than giving ten dollars bounty for six weeks service in the militia, who come in, you can not tell how; go, you can not tell when; and act, you can not tell where; who consume your provisions, exhaust your stores, and leave you at last in a critical moment.
"These, sir," he added, "are the men I am to depend upon ten days hence.