University of Virginia Library

Search this document 

2493. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1800), The Republic and. mdash; [further continued].

The late chapter of our history furnishes a lesson to man perfectly
new. The times have been awful, but they
have proved an useful truth, that the good
citizen must never despair of the commonwealth.
How many good men abandoned the
deck, and gave up the vessel as lost.—
To Nathaniel Niles. Washington ed. iv, 376. Ford ed., viii, 24.
(W. March. 1801)