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1597. CONGRESS, Verbosity in.—

Her
[Delaware's] long speeches and wicked workings
at this session have added at least thirty
days to its length, cost us $30,000, and filled
the Union with falsehoods and misrepresentations.—
To Cæsar A. Rodney. Ford ed., viii, 148.
(W. April. 1802)