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4907. MADISON (James), Administration of.—[further continued].

If you will except the
bringing into power and importance those who
were enemies to himself as well as to the
principles of republican government, I do not
recollect a single measure of the President
which I have not approved. Of those under
him, and of some very near him, there have
been many acts of which we have all disapproved,
and he more than we.—
To Thomas Leiper. Washington ed. vi, 465. Ford ed., ix, 521.
(M. 1815)