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4649. LIBELS, Jefferson and.—[continued].

Party passions are indeed
high. Nobody has more reasons to know it
than myself. I receive daily bitter proofs of
it from people who never saw me, nor know
anything of me but through “Porcupine”
[William Cobbett] and Fenno.—
To James Lewis, Jr. Washington ed. iv, 241. Ford ed., vii, 250.
(Pa., May. 1798)