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1523. CONGRESS, Corruption and.—[further continued].

I told President Washington
there was great difference between the
little accidental schemes of self-interest, which
would take place in every body of men, and
influence their votes, and a regular system
for forming a corps of interested persons, who
should be steadily at the orders of the
Treasury.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 122. Ford ed., i, 205.
(1792)