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106. ADDRESSES, Utilizing.—

Averse to
receive addresses, yet unable to prevent them,
I have generally endeavored to turn them to
some account, by making them the occasion,
of sowing useful truths and principles among
the people, which might germinate and become
rooted among their political tenets.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. iv, 427. Ford ed., viii, 129.
(1802)