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4123. JEFFERSON (Thomas), Paine and.—

A writer, under the name of “ Publicola
[John Quincy Adams], in attacking
all[Thomas] Paine's[political] principles, is
very desirous of involving me in the same
censure with the author. I certainly merit
the same, for I profess the same principles;
but it is equally certain I never meant to have


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entered as a volunteer into the cause.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iii, 267. Ford ed., v, 351.
(Pa., 1791)

See Paine.