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6142. OFFICE-HOLDERS, Elections and.—

Interferences with elections, whether
of the State or General Government, by officers
of the latter, should be deemed cause of removal;
because the constitutional remedy by
the elective principle becomes nothing, if it
may be smothered by the enormous patronage
of the General Government.—
To Thomas McKean. Washington ed. iv, 350. Ford ed., vii, 487.
(W. 1801)