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115. ADMINISTRATION, Devoted.—

If
ever the earth has beheld a system of administration
conducted with a single and steadfast
eye to the general interest and happiness
of those committed to it, one which, protected
by truth, can never know reproach, it
is that to which our lives have been devoted.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. vii, 435. Ford ed., x, 378.
(M. 1826)