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3504. GOVERNMENT, Field for.—

Never was a finer canvas presented to work
on than our countrymen. All of them engaged
in agriculture, or in the pursuits of
honest industry, independent in their circumstances,
enlightened as to their rights, and
firm in their habits of order and obedience
to the laws.—
To John Adams. Ford ed., vii, 56.
(M. 1796)