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5962. NEWSPAPERS, Power of.—

Freneau's paper has saved our Constitution,
which was galloping fast into monarchy, and
has been checked by no means so powerfully
as by that paper. It is well and universally
known, that it has been that paper which
has checked the career of the Monocrats.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 145. Ford ed., i, 231.
(1793)