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2498. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1804), Non-Interference with.—[continued].

I never interfered directly
or indirectly, with my friends or any
others, to influence the election either for him
[Aaron Burr] or myself. I considered it as
my duty to be merely passive, except that in
Virginia I had taken some measures to procure
for him the unanimous vote of that State, because
I thought any failure there might be
imputed to me.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 205. Ford ed., i, 302.
(1804)