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1561. CONGRESS, Opposition in.—

You
now see the composition of our public bodies,
and how essential system and plan are for
conducting our affairs wisely with so bitter a
party in opposition to us, who look not at all
to what is best for the public, but how they
may thwart whatever we may propose, though
they should thereby sink their country.—
To Cæsar A. Rodney. Ford ed., viii, 296.
(W. 1804)