To the freeholders and inhabitants of the counties of Botetourt and Montgomery : Gentlemen, Actuated by the same motives which first induced us to engage in your service, we now beg leave to call your attentions to a subject, to which, from your local situation ... you must hitherto have been strangers. We mean the state of our public debts. ... In order, gentlemen, to give you a more perfect idea of your proportion of the national debt ... and of your balances of taxes which are still due, we have subjoined the following concise table. ...