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4067. JACOBINS, Inexperience.—

The
only things wanting with the Jacobins is more
experience in business, and a little more conformity
to the established style of communication
with foreign powers. The latter want will,
I fear, bring enemies into the field, who would
have remained at home. The former leads them
to domineer over their executive, so as to render
it unequal to its proper objects.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., vi, 96.
(Pa., 1792)