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1618. CONSCIENCE, Elections and.—[continued].

Our principles render
federalists in office safe if they do not employ
their influence in opposing the government,
and only give their own vote according to
their conscience. And this principle we act
on as well with those put in office by others,
as by ourselves.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. v, 264.
(W. March. 1808)