50 POINTS (please answer accordingly) “Our Debts being unfunded and unprovided for, the Interest cannot be paid. Those therefore who trusted us in the Hour of Distress are defrauded. To expect that under such Circumstances others will confide in the Government would be Folly, and to expect that Foreigners will Trust a Government which has no Credit with its own Citizens must be madness. The whole Weight therefore of the War must be borne in the present Moment.
I would to God that I could say there were even the appearances of general Vigor and Exertion. But the Truth is very different. The United States have called for eight millions of Dollars early in November last, of which the first quarterly Payment was to have been made on the first Day of April next. But I cannot find that a single State has laid the Taxes.
Let the several States be ever so negligent, the Confederation has given no Power to compel [force/order]. While it confers on Congress the Privilege of asking everything, it has secured to each State the Prerogative of granting nothing. Since then, the Congress cannot compel the States to make a grant of Money.”

What is Morris saying in this?