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1466. CONCILIATION, Principle and.

—My inaugural address * * * will present
the leading objects to be conciliation and adherence
to sound principle. This, I know, is
impracticable with the leaders of the late faction,
whom I abandon as incurables, and will
never turn an inch out of my way to reconcile
them. But with the main body of the federalists,
I believe it very practicable.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 367. Ford ed., viii, 8.
(W. March. 1801)