But Gallatin was not an ordinary man.

He asked nothing of others which he himself was not willing to perform.

His ideal was high, but he reached its summit.

It seems almost as if, in his persistent demand that money accountability should be imposed by law upon the Treasury Department, he sought to set the measure of his own duty, while in the requirement that it should be extended to the other departments, he pledged himself to the perfect accomplishment of that duty in his own.
In his first report to Congress,[11] made December 18, 1801, Mr.
Gallatin submitted his financial estimate for the year 1802.
REVENUE.

EXPENDITURES.
Imposts $9,500,000 Int.