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6079. OFFICES, Bestowal.—[continued].

The consolidation of our
fellow citizens in general is the great object
we ought to keep in view, and that being
once obtained, while we associate with us
in affairs, to a certain degree, the federal sect
of republicans, we must strip of all the means
of influence the Essex Junto, and their associate
monocrats in every part of the Union.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. iv, 398. Ford ed., viii, 66.
(W. July. 1801)