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Senator Maclay of Pennsylvania regarded Hamilton's plans as wildly extravagant in their conception and iniquitous in their practical effect. In his opinion, Hamilton had "a very boyish, giddy manner, and Scotch-Irish people could well call him a 'skite." Jackson of Georgia exposed to the House the folly of Hamilton's proposals by pointing out that a funded debt meant national decay.
'If ye'd rather, laddie, the dog will bring ye home, continued the man. 'Skite! said Dick, with sullen scorn; but he went quietly after that. At the house they were met by Christina Shine, and Dick blushed furiously under her gaze of mild surprise.
Ye've mebbe watched the storm, sir, when it beat upon the shore. His style o' delivery was like the ragin' o' the waves. Ye see that buik, moderator, yir haun's restin' on the tap o't. Weel, he dune for sax o' them the while he was oor minister. We bocht the strongest bound o' them, but he banged them to tatters amazin' fast. A page at a skite.
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