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2485. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1800), The People and.—

The order and good sense
displayed * * * in the momentous crisis
which lately arose, really bespeak a strength of
character in our nation which augurs well for
the duration of our Republic; and I am much
better satisfied now of its stability than I was
before it was tried.—
To Dr. Joseph Priestley. Washington ed. iv, 374. Ford ed., viii, 22.
(W. March. 1801)