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1626. CONSCIENCE, Office and.—

If
their conscience urges them [federalists] to
take an active and zealous part in opposition,
it ought also to urge them to retire from a
post which they could not conscientiously
conduct with fidelity to the trust reposed in
them.—
To John Page. Washington ed. v, 136. Ford ed., ix, 119.
(W. 1807)