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1001. BURR'S (A.) TREASON, Self-government and.—

The suppression of the
late conspiracy by the hand of the people, uplifted
to destroy it wherever it reared its head,
manifests their fitness for self-government, and
the power of a nation, of which every individual
feels that his own will is part of the public authority.—
R. To A. New Jersey Legislature. Washington ed. viii, 122. (Dec. 1807.)