NOTIONS OF REPUTATION.
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The New York Courier & Enquirer has


given views upon anti-bonism, showing the


tendency Of its shameful progress; the result


Of its evils, &c.-viewS that should be scan
ned with mature delberation and calmness-
The anti-bond party have held out the idea
i Athat President Jefferson was opposed to bind
ing future generation for the payment Of


debts contracted by the present. So he was,
But we are not told by this "booty party"


that the apostle of liberty, Thomas Jefferson,


cave it as his opinion that the present genera


lion, should square all demands which it had


contracted, and hence there would be no ne


cessity of binding a future generation for an
enormous debt for which they will not have
received farthing. .-.-.... :


Mr. Jefferson somewhere says that he doubts
the right of an existing generation to contract
debts which shall be binding upon the succeed
ing one, and upon this dogma, the repudiators
base the position they are endeavoring TO es-
Iablish, that the engagements of the indebted
States are mol obligatory upon the people of
hose States. but that they are In fact roid.-
Being disciples Of Jefferson. it would be well
or these same persons to recollect that he
strongly, fully, and unequiyocally pronounced
/ the duty of each generation for itself to pay
III debts which it may contract, which is the
very reverse of modern reputation; which as
umes that because this generation can not
bind the next, therefore itcannot bind itself;
or there is no part of the Indebtedness OF the
epudating States but what has been cOntrac-
ed by the present generation; and, in the re-
,udiating State OF Mississippi, for its especIall