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2381. EDITORS, Government, People and.—

The printers and the public are very
different personages. The former may lead
the latter a little out of their track, while
the deviation is insensible; but the moment
they usurp their direction and that of their
government, they will be reduced to their
true places.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. v, 598. Ford ed., ix, 324.
(M. May. 1811)