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4511. LAW, Lynch.—[continued].

There is no country
which is not sometimes subject to irregular
interpositions of the people. There is no
country able, at all times, to punish them.
There is no country which has less of this to
reproach itself with than the United States,
nor any, where the laws have more regular
course, or are more habitually and cheerfully
acquiesced in.—
To George Hammond. Washington ed. iii, 413. Ford ed., vi, 54.
(Pa., May. 1792)