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5924. NEWSPAPERS, Agitation by.—

In the first moments of quietude which have
succeeded the [Presidential] election, the
printers seem to have aroused their lying
faculties beyond their ordinary state, to reagitate
the public mind. What appointments
to office have they detailed which had never
been thought of, merely to found a text for
their calumniating commentaries.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. iv, 392. Ford ed., viii, 43.
(W. March. 1801)