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5276. MINORITY, Censorship by.—

A
respectable minority [in Congress] is useful
as censors. The present one is not respectable,
being the bitterest remains of the cup
of federalism, rendered desperate and furious
by despair.—
To Joel Barlow. Washington ed. iv, 437. Ford ed., viii, 149.
(W. May. 1802)