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6162. OFFICE-HOLDERS, Partizan.—[further continued].

Our principles render
federalists in office safe, if they do not employ
their influence in opposing the government,
and only give their own vote according
to their conscience. And this principle we
act on as well with those put in office by
others, as by ourselves.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. v, 264.
(W. March. 1808)