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5975. NEWSPAPERS, Restraint on.—

To your request of my opinion of the manner
in which a newspaper should be conducted,
so as to be most useful, I should answer:
“By restraining it to true facts and sound
principles only.” Yet I fear such a paper
would find few subscribers.—
To John Norvell. Washington ed. v, 91. Ford ed., ix, 73.
(W. 1807)