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6123. OFFICES, Perplexity over.—

My
position is painful enough between federalists
who cry out on the first touch of their monopoly,
and republicans who clamor for universal
removal. A subdivision of the latter
will increase the perplexity. I am proceeding
with deliberation and enquiry to do what
I think just to both descriptions and conciliatory
to both.—
To John Dickinson. Ford ed., viii, 76.
(W. July. 1801)