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5496. MONROE (James), Secretary of State.—

Although I may not have been among
the first, I am certainly with the sincerest, who
congratulate you on your entrance into the
national councils. Your value there has never
been unduly estimated by those whom personal
feelings did not misguide.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. v, 597. Ford ed., ix, 323.
(M. May. 1811)