6305. PAGE (John), Jefferson and.—
It
had given me much pain, that the zeal of our
respective friends should ever have placed you
and me in the situation of competitors. [375]
I was
comforted, however, with the reflection, that it
was their competition, not ours, and that the
difference of the numbers which decided between
us, was too insignificant to give to you
a pain, or me a pleasure, had our dispositions
towards each other been such as to admit those
sensations.—
To John Page. Washington ed. i, 210.
Ford ed., ii, 187.
(1779)
