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612. ATTORNEYS, Federal District.—[continued].

Republican attorneys and
marshals, being the doors of entrance into
the courts, are indispensably necessary as a
shield to the republican part of our fellow
citizens, which, I believe, is the main body of
the people.—
To William B. Giles. Washington ed. iv, 381. Ford ed., viii, 25.
(W. 1801)