6215. OPINION, Differences of.—[further continued] .
That in a free government
there should be differences of opinion
as to public measures and the conduct of
those who direct them, is to be expected.
It is much, however, to be lamented, that
these differences should be indulged at a
crisis which calls for the undivided counsels
and energies of our country, and in a form
calculated to encourage our enemies in the
refusal of justice, and to force their country
into war as the only resource for obtaining
it.—
R. to A. New London Republicans. Washington ed. viii, 151.
(1809)
