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2448. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1796), Candidature of Jeferson.—[further continued].

The first wish of my
heart was that you should have been proposed
for the administration of the government. On
your declining it, I wish anybody rather than
myself.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 150. Ford ed., vii, 91.
(M. Dec. 17, 1796)