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6475. PATRONAGE, Use of.—[continued].

No government [can] discharge its duties to the best advantage of
its citizens, if its agents [are] in a regular
course of thwarting instead of executing all
its measures, and [are] employing the patronage
and influence of their offices against the
government and its measures.—
To John Page. Washington ed. v, 136. Ford ed., ix, 118.
(W. July. 1807)