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2501. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1808), Neutrality of Jeffrson.—[further continued].

The Presidential question is clearly up daily, and the opposition subsiding.
It is very possible that the suffrage of the
nation may be undivided. But with this question
it is my duty not to intermeddle.—
To Meriwether Lewis. Washington ed. v, 321. Ford ed., ix, 200.
(W. July. 1808)