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6117. OFFICES, Participation in.—

It would have been to me a circumstance of
great relief, had I found a moderate participation
of office in the hands of the majority.
I would gladly have left to time and accident
to raise them to their just share. But their
total exclusion calls for prompter correctives.—
To the New Haven Committee. Washington ed. iv, 405. Ford ed., viii, 70.
(W. July. 1801)