1467. CONCILIATION, Principle and. [continued].
After the first unfavorable
impressions of doing too much [91]
in the
opinion of some, and too little in that of
others, shall be got over. I should hope a
steady line of conciliation very practicable, and
that without yielding a single republican prin
ciple. A certainty that these principles prevailed
in the breasts of the main body of federalists,
was my motive for stating them as
the ground of reunion.—
To Dr. Benjamin Rush. Washington ed. iv, 384.
Ford ed., viii, 32.
(W.
March. 1801)
