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6047. OFFICE, Choice of.—[further continued].

I never thought of questioning
the free exercise of the right of my
fellow citizens, to marshal those whom they
call into their service according to their fitness,
nor ever presumed that they were not
the best judges of that.—
To James Sullivan. Washington ed. iv, 168. Ford ed., vii, 116.
(M. 1797)