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The people who originally bought the bonds,
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who lent the money to the government,
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the farmers who did it
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they didn't own the bonds any more.
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They probably all sold it for twenty dollars.
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It was all this despicable speculators who held the bonds.
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You're only going to enrich them by paying them off."
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So he just wouldn't budge.
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And finally Hamilton,
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supposedly this is a famous story, I assume it's true
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Hamilton went to Washington and said,
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All right, move the capitol from New York to Washington.