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2269. DRAFT, Unpopularity of.—

In
Virginia a draft was ever the most unpopular
and impracticable thing that could be attempted.
Our people, even under the monarchical
government, had learned to consider
it as the last of all oppressions.—
To John Adams. Ford ed., ii, 129.
(Wg. 1777)