Jimmy Carter's message to Ted Cruz and his Tea Party allies:

[ND-Dem]

18. It was a little different.

From "Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its First Rise..."

"The increase of poor diseased foreigners and others, settled in the distant parts of this province, where regular advice and assistance cannot be procured, but at an expense that neither they nor their township can afford, has wakened the attention of sundry humane and well disposed minds, to procure some more certain, effectual and easy methods for their relief....a law was passed without one dissenting voice, giving two thousand pounds for building and furnishing a provincial hospital, on condition that two thousand pounds more should be raised by private donations, to be put out at interest as part of a perpetual fund for supporting it; and the contributors were made a body corporate...."

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