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2379. EDITORS, Contention and.—[continued].

A coalition of sentiments
is not for the interest of the printers.
They, * * *, live by the zeal they can
kindle, and the schisms they can create. It
is contest of opinion in politics * * * which makes us take great interest in them,
and bestow our money liberally on those who
furnish aliment to our appetite.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. iv, 391. Ford ed., viii, 42.
(W. March. 1801)