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1498. CONGRESS, The Administration [further continued].

When a gentleman,
through zeal for the public service, undertakes
to do the public business, we know that we
shall hear the cant of backstairs councillors.
But we never heard this while the declaimer
[John Randolph] was himself a backstairs
man, as he calls it, but in the confidence and
views of the administration, as may more
properly and respectfully be said.—
To Mr. Bidwell. Washington ed. v, 16.
(W. 1806)