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2495. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1800), Usurpation and.—

In the event of an usurpation,
I was decidedly with those who were
determined not to permit it. Because that
precedent once set, would be artificially reproduced,
and end soon in a dictator. Virginia
was bristling up, I believe. I shall know the
particulars from Governor Monroe, whom I expect
to meet in a short visit I must make home.—
To Thomas McKean. Washington ed. iv, 369. Ford ed., viii, 12.
(W. March. 1801)