William Richardson Davie, (1756-1820) Governor of North Carolina (1798-1799), North Carolina delegate to the 1787-88 Constitutional Convention Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 William Richardson Davie quotesWilliam Richardson Davie QuotesWilliam Richardson Davie So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.~ William Richardson Davie Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print