strings: "Well," says I, "you see what the offcers of State say about it, and they are a desarnin' set of men. But," says I, "1 guess you're mistaken about what the proclamation says. It don't say the people will lose anything by the paper money being taken for taxes. It only says 'there will be danger of loss' ; and though it is tolerable plain that the people can't lose by paying their taxes in something they can get easier than silver, instead of having to pay silver; and though it's just as plain that the State can't lose by taking State Bank paper, however low it may be, while she owes the bank more than the whole revenue, and can pay that paper over on her debt, dollar for dollar there is danger of loss to the 'offcers of State'; and you know, Jeff, we can't get along without offcers of State."