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6168. OFFICE-HOLDERS, Recommendations.—[further continued] .

To exhibit recommendations
would be to turn the Senate into a
court of honor, or a court of slander, and to
expose the character of every man nominated
to an ordeal, without his own consent, subject
ing the Senate to heats and waste of time.—
To Albert Gallatin. Ford ed., viii, 211.
(1803)