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1697. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Preservation of.—[further continued] .

May you and your cotemporaries
meet them [attacks on the Constitution] with the same determination and
effect, as your father and his did the Alien
and Sedition laws, and preserve inviolate a
constitution, which, cherished in all its
chastity and purity, will prove in the end a
blessing to all the nations of the earth.—
To Mr. Nicholas. Washington ed. vii, 230.
(M. 1821)