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2114. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Opposition to.—

Many excellent
persons opposed it on doubts whether we
were provided sufficiently with the means of
supporting it, whether the minds of our constituents
were yet prepared to receive, &c.,
who, after it was decided, united zealously in
the measures it called for.—
To William P. Gardner. Ford ed., ix, 377.
(M. 1813)